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Punctuation: inside or outside quotes?

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Many writers have struggled with this before learning the best way to deal with punctuation quotation.  There are rules based on American and British English. However, he is a general rule you want to consider:

Commas, periods, question marks, and exclamation marks go inside the quotes

Parenthesis, colon and semi-colons go outside the quotes.

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