Basic grammar help: does a period go before or after quotation marks? If the quotation itself is a sentence and then the quotation is what ends the written sentence, where does it go then?

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Basic grammar help:

does a period go before or after quotation marks?
If the quotation itself is a sentence and then the quotation is what ends the written sentence, where does it go then?

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the period goes before the quotation marks

Henry Moshkovich answered Oct 5, 2020

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Period go before and then the quotation mark

Ennael answered Oct 10, 2020

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