If you use quotation marks, do you still have to use a full-stop at the end of the quotation? Can I capitalise the beginning of sentences inside the quotation marks?
>>4874 Yes, capitalise the start of the quote. And do use a full stop inside the quotation marks. Punctuation rules are more fluid than grammar and spelling however and no-one will give a flying fuck if you get it a bit wrong or improvise.
>>4875 I see. How about a sentence where I quote somebody? Like:
She looked at me and said, "Where's my jam?"
In that sentence, would I need that full-stop at the end of the sentence, after the quotation mark? It just looks odd and the weirder it gets, the longer I look at it. What if the person I quoted made a statement? Where would I place the full-stop then? Before the closed quotation mark or after? I understand punctuation rules are fluid but I like to be right.
>Question marks and exclamation marks go EITHER inside or outside the quotation mark depending on the situation. They go inside when the question or exclamation is part of what is quoted.
>She asked, “Who did it?” or Did she say, “I’m quitting”?
OP actually wrote "do", but when quoting people might want to change it to the correct letter case so the square brackets indicate that something has been changed. [sic] is almost the opposite; it's used to indicate that they're quoting word for word, incorrect grammar and all.
So we have
>[D]o you still have to use a full-stop ...
and
>do you still have to use a full-stop... [sic]
