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    American style uses double quotation marks to enclose a quotation and single quotation marks for a quotation within a quotation, with periods and commas placed inside the quotation marks. British style uses the opposite - single quotation marks for the outer quotation and double for the inner, with periods and commas placed outside quotation marks. Both styles place other punctuation like colons and semicolons outside quotation marks.

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    American style uses double quotation marks to enclose a quotation and single quotation marks for a quotation within a quotation, with periods and commas placed inside the quotation marks. British style uses the opposite - single quotation marks for the outer quotation and double for the inner, with periods and commas placed outside quotation marks. Both styles place other punctuation like colons and semicolons outside quotation marks.

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    American style uses double quotation marks to enclose a quotation and single quotation marks for a quotation within a quotation, with periods and commas placed inside the quotation marks. British style uses the opposite - single quotation marks for the outer quotation and double for the inner, with periods and commas placed outside quotation marks. Both styles place other punctuation like colons and semicolons outside quotation marks.

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    Punctuating Around Quotation Marks

    Style issue American Style British Style


    To enclose a quotation, use… Double quotation marks Single quotation marks
    To enclose a quotation within a
    Single quotation marks Double quotation marks
    quotation, use…
    Place periods and commas… Inside quotation marks Outside quotation marks
    Place other punctuation (colons, semi-
    Outside quotation marks* Outside quotation marks*
    colons, question marks, etc.)…

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