Quotation Marks
With other punctuation:
- Periods and commas go inside.
- Dashes, semicolons, question marks, and exclamation points go inside only if they’re part of the quoted matter; otherwise, put them outside.
- Quotations within quotations: Alternate between double and single quotation marks.
Tamara said, “Ginger told me only yesterday, ‘I realize that accusing Patti of “goring his ox” was going a bit too far.’ ”