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Despite its sparse text, the book also manages to cover a bit of grammatical history, too: from the Ancient Greeks’ aobve-the-line use of the full stop, for example, to the theory that it was a monk who designed the first question mark after copying the ...

Running quotations: If a full paragraph of quoted material is followed by a paragraph that continues the quotation, do not use closing quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph, but do use opening quotation marks at the start the second paragraph.

After all we’re not savages ... Sometimes a full stop is used outside of the quotation marks, this is because the full stop belongs to the whole sentence, not the original quotation: In ...

When a quotation ends a sentence and the parenthetical citation is at the end, the period should come after the citation ... Note the order of the punctuation: Quotation mark, citation, and then period. If only part of a quote is needed, it is possible ...