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iii. Punctuation in quotations falls into three categories. (1) Full stops and commas always go inside the quotation marks; (2) colons and semicolons always go outside the quotation marks; (3) exclamation marks and question marks go inside the quotation marks only if they are part of the quote.[110] Consider the following examples:
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“Take three—and only three—samples.”
[10] In close textual studies Rule 1 may be broken if it is necessary to signal that the punctuation is not part of the quote.