"beavis" wrote in message
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In article , Jose
wrote:

The period goes inside the quotation marks. That was my point.

That's stylistic more than grammatic. It is in fact logically incorrect
in this instance, where the quoted part is not itself a sentence; the
period is put (by some publishers) inside for looks primarily.

If you're discussing American English, you're incorrect. In England,
you're correct.

The Chicago Manual of Style, widely regarded as the definitive reference for
standard written American English, refers to a "traditional style" which is
as you describe, and an "alternative system" in which (more logically) the
period goes outside the closing quote. Although the CMS mentions that the
alternative system "is sometimes called the British style", it makes no
assertion that the alternative system is incorrect for American English.

--Gary