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Grammar Question

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MrCodeDude

Lifer
We get bonus points for finding errors in our textbook (it's a first edition and our professor is the author), so I think I've found two, but I figured I'd see if someone on ATOT knows any better.

The excerpt is
A signal can be assigned the data type "bit". .... which are additional data types used by the data type "std_logic".
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Shouldn't the periods be inside the quotations? I know they should in actual quotations, but he is using the quotations for emphasis, so I don't know if that allows for any exceptions.
 
In US English, periods and commas are supposed to be inside the quotes, but in UK English, they should be on the outside.
 
I thought that they were supposed to be inside the marks if they were part of the quote, but outside if they ended the sentence.

::shrug::
 
Originally posted by: shuttleboi
In US English, periods and commas are supposed to be inside the quotes, but in UK English, they should be on the outside.
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QFT.

This is one area in which I prefer the British method.
 
What if it's a quote with someone else's quote, and they're different parts of speech?


"Before he left, did he yell, 'Go away!'?"



Someone is asking a question, but the phrase in question is "Go away!"

And right there, the sentence is not needing an exclamation mark, but the quote ending the sentence has one. Should there be a period outside the quotes?
 
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