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Q No one saw you; is that correct? A No. Q "No," it's not correct? Or, "No," no one saw you? Happy punctuating! Margie

Jim Barker, September of 2014, was asked this question: "Do you quote when you can't see the quoted material and you don't know if they really read it verbatim?" Jim's response: "Absolutely. An...

...Did he say things like "I'm not going to keep it " or "I want to sell it " or "I want to lease it out"? Or what did he tell you? No comma after "like" because it is a preposition and the senten...

No matter what you might see in the headline of a major newspaper or on the Internet, it is NEVER correct to use single quotes alone. Single quotes always occur inside of double quotes. Happy punc...

...He said, "I have never seen him in my life." ...She said, "You may not access those files." ...He said something like "I have never seen him in my life." ...She said something to the effect of ...

When a person repeats only a part of the original statement, quote only the part that was in the original. ...to wait for a later to be discovered piece of evidence. Object to the foundation for t...

Periods and commas go inside quotes without exception; colons and semicolons go outside quotes without exception. Question marks go inside or outside quotes depending on where the question is bein...

When there is punctuation to get into quotes, there must be punctuation to get out. In other words, if there is a comma before the quote, there has to be some mark of punctuation at the end of the ...

There is no rule that the dash must be inside or outside the quotes. Either way works. ...He was always saying, "You have to be here on -- " he was always preaching to us about everything. In thi...