Placement with other punctuation: A period or comma always go inside closing quotation marks. ("We hope to win the game," he said.) A dash, semicolon, question mark and exclamation point go inside ...

Do not use a question mark with an indirect question. (He asked if we knew the time.) Put a question mark inside closing quotation marks when the punctuation applies to the quotation itself and ...

With dialogue ending a sentence, the period should stay within the quotation marks. This pertains to dialogue without parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence. With a question mark, the ...

Because sometimes periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, ...

Colons and semicolons are always placed outside quotation marks. Ex: John wrote, "I'm sorry that I won't be able to come home for Christmas"; however, he managed to get some time off. Question marks ...