But the punctuation at the end of nothin’ isn’t a quotation mark. It’s an apostrophe. And to avoid errors in tough situations like these, it helps to understand single quotation marks and a ...

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Place all other punctuation — colons, semicolons, question marks, etc. — outside quotation marks, unless they are part of what is being quoted, such as a quoted question. 9. Don't overuse ...

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