<p>Don’t care. </p>
<p>It’s my fight against the system. It was how I was taught regardless. My current teacher prefers it like that- I’ve checked. I have many upon many teachers edit my work as I write and none of them have yet to care. It seems the majority prefer that way. Then again, maybe we’re all just a bunch of un-educated hicks. </p>
<p>Regardless, I’m not sure I particularly care.</p>
<p>You cared enough to post quite a long explanation of why you write grammatically incorrectly…</p>
<p>Look. This is a stupid thing to be arguing over but just come to terms with the fact that you were mistaken and that it makes absolutely no sense to use three different marks of punctuation in a row. It doesn’t matter what your current teacher thinks because clearly he or she is mistaken as well. Stick with it if you want but it looks funny, is incorrect, and your BS teachers might actually notice and be the ones to teach you grammatically correct methods of quotation - since clearly you won’t listen to any of us here on CC, regardless of the fact we’re correct.</p>
<p>Just putting it out there - take it or leave it.</p>
<p>Latin, your teacher is wrong. Sorry.</p>
<p>why are we arguing over punctuation? this is stupid. lot’s of people do it both ways.</p>
<p>Tom is right. </p>
<p>The rules concerning question marks and exclamation points are dependent upon whether they are a part of the quoted material or not; however, commas and periods are always inside. Not every teacher knows what he/she is talking about. I suggest that you have your mom/dad communicate this odd understanding of punctuation/mechanics to your teacher. Either your teacher is not very good or you misunderstood. If you misunderstood, then you will need your teacher’s support as you fix this clearly wrong approach to punctuation. If your teacher is telling his/her students to use commas and periods in this manner, please stop him or her—but—let your parents do it! From my perspective, this is dangerous and unacceptable!</p>
<p>Well, you ARE supposed to put it on the inside. According to my current page, who is currently Allah (though Vishnu will be filling in as page soon).</p>
<p>it’s like saying that the spelling “labour” is more sorrect than “labor”. Yeah, it’s the first way everywhere BUT the U.S., but it isn’t necessarily wrong, just different.</p>
<p>Izzy, don’t defend musicallylatin - he’s committed a crime!</p>
<p>And hell, why not argue about punctuation on this thread? After all, it was started to showcase various failures at spelling and grammar in school admission materials! I don’t think there is any more appropriate thread on this forum to scrutinize each other’s spelling and punctuation. If you’re going to do it at all, it’s best to do it here rather than on some innocent thread to some unsuspecting stranger who didn’t expect to be corrected.</p>
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<p>British Spellings>American Spellings…</p>