One thing I
learned this week is that not all punctuations go inside quotation marks. I
have always thought that it was a rule that punctuation goes inside. I actually
looked this up this week because I thought I ran into an editing error that I
saw in an online article.
The sentence in
question had a semicolon outside of quotation marks. When I looked up the rule
in when rules collide I learned that is was correct. I learned that the period
and the comma go inside quotation marks, but exclamation marks, question marks
and semicolons go outside of quotation marks.
My grammar
mistake this week comes from a post that showed up in my Facebook news feed today. It
said, “Check these guys out! They have a
shop in Layton, building a new one in Morgan and have mobile detailing
avaliable even in park city! Nothing sucks about a clean car!”
There are several things wrong in
this post, including a miss spelling word and no company name. Here is a
grammatically correct re-work of this post: “Check out Gorilla Shine Inc.! They
currently have a shop in Layton. Mobile detailing is offered in Park City and a new location will open soon in Morgan. There isn’t anything better than a
clean car!
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