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period go? The quotation is a complete sentence within another sentence, and there's | period go? The quotation is a complete sentence within another sentence, and there's | ||
only one period, so it belongs to the "inner" sentence (the one in italics), so the | only one period, so it belongs to the "inner" sentence (the one in italics), so the | ||
period goes '''inside''' the markups. | period goes '''inside''' the markups. | ||
This "ownership" notion also applies when the last word of a non-italicized sentence | This "ownership" notion also applies when the last word of a non-italicized sentence | ||
is an italicized abbreviation such as "etc." In that situation, the period, which | is an italicized abbreviation such as "etc." In that situation, the period, which | ||
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press" do not mind lying a little upon a pinch. [See Walter's "Times" of Tuesday last, for the following: "<i>Mr. Cobbett has thrown open the front of his house at Kensington, where he proposes to sell meat at a reduced price.</i>"] What I said was this:
Quotation marks
The quotation marks are containers and go outside the markups. But, where does that period go? The quotation is a complete sentence within another sentence, and there's only one period, so it belongs to the "inner" sentence (the one in italics), so the period goes inside the markups.
This "ownership" notion also applies when the last word of a non-italicized sentence is an italicized abbreviation such as "etc." In that situation, the period, which belongs to the abbreviation, must stay with it, and go inside the tags.