Where to place period after a quote?

The period is placed correctly and if the sentenced quoted was capitalized ( a phrase may not be so ) then keep the capitalization.

Yes, you place the period within the quote.

I would also reword “the phrase you have said,” which is awkward. Do you mean “the team motto you mentioned”?

Since it is a motto, and a famous one, I would capitalize the “o” in that context.

Is this for an interview follow-up thank-you? I am keeping my fingers crossed for you.

I generally place the period within the quotation marks.

I could be wrong since I suck at grammar, But I treat what is inside the quotes as a sentence. So I would capitalize the first word. I always assumed that is why the punctuation goes inside the quotes.

I could be wrong but I barely managed to graduate college.

Thanks. I wanted to write a thank you note althought my handwriting isn’t beautiful it’s okay haha….

I was told not to write it because thank you notes sound like you’re sucking up

@gailcalled thanks

You can type a thank-you note and add a short PS. in your handwriting.

If it is elegant, spare, funny and singular, it won’t be seen as “sucking up.”

Here’s my goto set of rules for dealing with sentence punctuation when quotes are included. I hear that the UK sees it differently, but then what would the English know about proper English?

Whoa, whoa, whoa… I disagree with the thank you note thing. HR likes sucking-up.

I went in for a interview and faxed in a thank you note (this was 2001) the morning after the interview. The note was a template I alta-visted. Ten minutes later I got a call for a second interview. I got the job.

My note was pretty much. “Thank you for for letting me know more about Advanced Power Technology and how I could fit in to the team.”

I bombed the interview too. But the extra efort of tracking down the HR persons fax number and sending a fax got me in.

Guess it doesn’t hurt as long as my grammar is good.

“The speeding car came to a sudden full stop.”
I just did it twice, there’s a clever boy.

Ys to the period. Yes to the capital.

The way I understand it: if a complete sentence is quoted at the end of a sentence, the period is inside the quotation marks. If the quote is not a complete sentence, the period goes outside the quotation marks. Example:

I breathed a sigh of relief when @johnpowell said, “I got the job.”

or:

I would consider using @ETpro‘s “goto set of rules”.

^^ I’ve always been confused about those two examples, too. Maybe someone can clear it up for us.

Originally the full stop went after the quotation mark. However when the printing press came along the full stop was moved to before the quotation marks because the piece of type for the quotation mark was bigger and therefore more robust and less likely to be damaged if it was at the end of a when the text was printed.

^^^This is why I love Fluther.

@Lightlyseared Yet another example of evolution of grammar due to technology!

^^ It’s not grammar; it’s punctuation.

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