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I know that, when using a period, comma, or exclamation mark with quotation marks, we should generally place the punctuation inside the quotes. Does this hold in general?

For example, consider the quote

However, when he said "the bag is open", he meant that the bag was not closed.

Should the comma be placed within the quotation marks, as follows

However, when he said "the bag is open," he meant that the bag was not closed.

Is this different between American and British English?

sam wolfe
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In your example the pair of commas are used in place of parenthesis

However (when he said "the bag is open") he meant that the bag was not closed.

so the second comma is not part of the quote and should be outside the quotation marks.

Having now read Kate Bunting's comment, I think the third answer (WBT's score 5) to the that question sums it up best.

Peter Jennings
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