27th
Alot is not a word.
Your local English teacher agrees. No matter how many times I say this, write this, or correct this, my students still write it “alot”.
Periods go inside quotation marks.
Wrong.
Hahahaha. Ok, whatever you say!
Regardless of the grammar rule, whether or not you’re right, I think that rule should be meant only for dialogue.
I’m not at all brushed up on the things I learned when I was in school, but if I am using quotations to point out an example of a word the way bowlingalleylawyer did, there’s no way I would put the end quote on the outside of the period.
It suggests that the punctuation is part of the quote, not part of the sentence.
My b. I meant to preface that with, “According to the established prescriptivist grammar rule, and not Allisonjenna’s personal opinion…”
