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What benefit does the reader draw from being informed “this quoted phrase is a complete sentence”? It’s not futile to reconsider conventions, no matter that de
by floatingatoll 5y ago
What benefit does the reader draw from being informed “this quoted phrase is a complete sentence”?
It’s not futile to reconsider conventions, no matter that demands may go ignored.
- LeifCarrotson 5y agoFloatingatoll said "It's not futile to reconsider conventions". This shows that's not a complete sentence, suggesting that you added a caveat or other clause. Also, your preceding paragraph highlights another issue: what if the sentence being quoted has different punctuation than the sentence it's placed in? You wrote a sentence that should end in a question mark, but the quote should end with a period.
- a9h74j 5y agoGood illustration, but also brings into scope the [sadly disappearing?] ethical requirement of not misleading with abbreviated or out-of-context quotations.
- floatingatoll 5y agoSo, when a quoted sentence fragment terminates a sentence, the period should be outside? > Blah blah "Quoted sentence in entirety." versus > Blah blah "Quoted sentence fragment".
- LeifCarrotson 5y agoExactly, that's the rule in British style. In American style, the period goes inside in both cases.