Quotes After Question Mark

In american english, the general rule for question marks and exclamation marks (or points) is this: In american english, commas and periods should be placed within the quotation marks as long as they do not change the meaning of the quotation. For those rare occasions when both the quoted words and the sentence are questions, put the question mark inside the quotation marks.

Yes, that means you can't tell just from the punctuation whether just the quote or both the quote and the sentence is a question. Here’s an example of this rule: Did betsy ask, “what’s the number of a good lawyer?”?

President kennedy famously exclaimed ich bin ein berliner! madonna is fond of declaring i'm not ashamed of anything. the only emperor, writes wallace stevens, is the emperor of ice cream. look closely at these examples.

A question mark can be found outside the quotation mark if the sentence is asking about a quotation, but the quotation itself is not a question. “is it almost over?” he asked. She asked, “will it rain today?” the student shouted, “i passed the final test. When the quotation itself is a question, put the question mark inside the quotation marks.