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5/23/13 page 44
2. What constitutes the difference between "public" and "private?"
and I am having to look it up here: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/03/ because even though I just quoted you a bunch of rules about this over at the DP, I cannot apply the rule myself without going and checking because the answer is so against my ingrained training from NASA technical writing. But then again, maybe I was only putting commas and periods outside of quotes back then. I don't know.
OK here is the rule from that site:
Place a question mark or exclamation point within closing quotation marks if the punctuation applies to the quotation itself. Place the punctuation outside the closing quotation marks if the punctuation applies to the whole sentence.
Now I ask myself, well, they are talking about exact quote from people, not quotes about things...so now I go on another rule hunt: so I go here:
and find this:
Here is a quick chart of the differences: http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-around-quotation-marks.html I will ad this link to my grammer resource segment here on your forum and I will come back later to figure out this answer (which I am sure I have already figured out before in my editing this time around.) See Joe, I have very poor retention, and it drives me crazy because I used to be able to remember everything.
To enclose a quotation, use…
American Style: Double quotation marks
British Style: Single quotation marks
To enclose a quotation within a quotation, use…
American Style: Single quotation marks
British Style: Double quotation marks
Place periods and commas…
American Style: Inside quotation marks
British Style: Outside quotation marks
Place other punctuation (colons, semi-colons, question marks, etc.)…
American Style: Outside quotation marks*
British Style: Outside quotation marks*
*Place other punctuation inside quotation marks when that punctuation is part of what is being quoted, such as a quoted question.
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So the answer to my question is:
2. What constitutes the difference between "public" and "private?"
should be:
2. What constitutes the difference between "public" and "private"?with the question mark outside of the quote because the quote is not the question