Speaker 1: Commas are punctuation marks that are vital for helping us to be understood correctly. Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) Can you believe I wrote that on my dating profile? Speaker 1 ...

Continue this pattern, using closing quotation marks only at the very end of the quoted material. Placement with other punctuation: A period or comma always go inside closing quotation marks. ("We ...

With dialogue, specific punctuation is needed. Most often, commas and periods go within the quotation marks, but there are some forms of punctuation and examples that go outside of the quotation marks ...