Question on Punctuation- Quotation Marks & Commas?

Question

Which has the correct punctuations?

1. "Yuck," she would have said in disgust.
2. "Yuck", she would have said in disgust

Answer 1

In American usage #1 is correct. Punctuation goes inside the quotes even when it makes the meaning ambiguous. There is some pressure against this from people (like me) of a hackerish or nerdish persuasion.



In British usage I believe #2 is correct. Good for them!

Answer 2

To be absolutely correct you need to have punctuation both inside and outside the speech marks like:-



"Yuck!", she would have said in disgust.



or



"Yuck.", she would have said in disgust.

Answer 3

I do it if the quote isn't a sentence itself. to illustrate: the most suitable note of your question changed into "acceptable". i'm likely no longer doing it good, although. What receives truly confusing, is at the same time as the quote is an complete sentence, yet i'm purely utilising it as a clause, because then i am going to finally end up with a cumbersome searching ."; mixture. "Hmm...it sounds like you've multiple punctuation."; Yahoo! says. nicely, "It sounds like you forgot to positioned an section between the elipses and the i!", says I.