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9 years ago

“You should put punctuation marks, such as commas and periods, before the closing parenthesis or quotation mark,” said my supervisor (Ivan.)

Being an American, he is unaware that this rule does not apply for the language in which I am writing my thesis (Canadian English). In Canadian English the rule states that one should put punctuation marks after these “closing marks”, not before!


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