This page covers whether periods full stops , commas and other punctuation marks should be placed before or after a speech mark. Unfortunately, the rules governing whether to place punctuation inside or outside speech marks are not straightforward. The quick summary is Semicolons and colons outside.. For the relative placing of quotation marks and punctuation, follow Hart s rules. Thus, if an extract ends with a full stop or question mark, put the punctuation before the closing inverted commas. His maxim was that “love follows laughter.”.
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