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A comment on Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American. Parent comment

Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by floatingatoll on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:07PM (#28543028)
So, when a quoted sentence fragment terminates a sentence, the period should be outside?

> Blah blah "Quoted sentence in entirety."

versus

> Blah blah "Quoted sentence fragment".

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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by LeifCarrotson on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:36AM (#28551589)
Exactly, that's the rule in British style. In American style, the period goes inside in both cases.
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