Quotation Marks: Where Do the Periods and Commas Go--And Why?

Quotation Marks: Where Do the Periods and Commas Go--And Why? Now I understand why this is a tough rule for me to remember: The British and American rules are different. So if you, as I, read extensively during the years you were learning grammar rules, you read both British and American classics, which followed different rules. British: period varies depending on usage (of course!), whereas American: period goes inside the quotation marks.