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It seems wrong because it is. > Question marks and exclamation points have their own rules. > If they apply to the quoted material, they go within the quotati
by soraminazuki 5y ago
It seems wrong because it is.
> Question marks and exclamation points have their own rules.
> If they apply to the quoted material, they go within the quotation marks. If they apply to the whole sentence, they go outside it
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/quotation-marks/ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/quotation-marks/
- eCa 5y agoI have seen things like: > The password is ’%>>~|]#^|,’ which is awesome. Which is, as far as I know, correct according to the rules.
- bee_rider 5y agoI don't think the normal rules of grammar are designed to handle this case. I would probably write something like > The password, which is awesome, is: > %>>~|]#^| This also has the benefit of putting the password on it's own line, which should make life easier for people actually consuming the document.
- PennRobotics 5y agoThere's nothing I like more than typing a URL at the end of a sentence and getting the punctuation wrapped up in the URL. /s