Question

13.   When using direct quotations in your writing, which of the following should be placed outside the set of quotation marks?

Answer 1

The question mark goes outside the quotes only if the quote itself is not asking a question. That would mean that the sentence in which the quotation is embedded is asking the question.

Ex.
My daughter's comment was, "Are you crazy?".
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Commas and periods always go inside the quotation marks. Semicolons function much like periods but not as definitive.