This has always made me wonder, and maybe some english genius' out there can help. When writing a sentence that is ended with a note in parenthesis, is the correct format:
This is my sentence (and I'm ending it now.)
or
This is my sentence (and I'm ending it now).
Notice the stop being inside and outside the last close. The same goes for quotation marks, but I am more sure in believing the stop does inside the last parenthesis. "Such as this.", quoth the Raven.
Full Version: Hyphens, Stops And Parenthesis - Question
It depends on where you live - the American way of doing things is to end both inside whereas in Britain we end outside of brackets and either way is acceptable for speech marks/quote marks, although they are usually ended on the inside.
In Sweden the dot is always in the end (always). Always "outside". But as Xela said, it's probably different depending on where you live.
In Portugal we also place it outside, hope that helps 
This is my sentence (and I'm ending it now.)
It looks better to be even bth.
It looks better to be even bth.
QUOTE (Max @ Mar 5 2009, 10:22 AM) 
This is my sentence (and I'm ending it now.)
It looks better to be even bth.
It looks better to be even bth.
Yeah, this is how I was taught. To put the stop INSIDE the closer.
QUOTE (PoultryChamp @ Mar 5 2009, 01:25 PM)
QUOTE (Max @ Mar 5 2009, 10:22 AM)
This is my sentence (and I'm ending it now.)
It looks better to be even bth.
It looks better to be even bth.
Yeah, this is how I was taught. To put the stop INSIDE the closer.
Well then I guess that settles it; you put the "stop" inside the "closer", but you put the period outside the parentheses.
In the UK I was taught that the full stop is always outside of the brackets (parenthesis). For quotations I was taught that it should be inside the quotation if that end mark was in the source material and should otherwise be outside.
I put it either way but most times in the outside. 
I was always tought the period goes on the outside of the second parenthesis.
As an American high school student, the standard practice for American-style grammatics would be to place the period inside the parenthesis. This (would be correct.) However, this (would not be correct, in our system anyway). The same goes for quotation marks.
QUOTE (MC @ Mar 5 2009, 05:43 PM)
As an American high school student, the standard practice for American-style grammatics would be to place the period inside the parenthesis. This (would be correct.) However, this (would not be correct, in our system anyway). The same goes for quotation marks.
My school must be weird o.O We use MLA which we'll keep into writing in college and our rules in writing have always been
This is your sentence (and I wanted to add something on).
Samething for quotations
The dead body showed that many of the soldiers were not extremely wealthy, "In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends" (Red Badge of Courage, 22).
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/Cliffs...leId-28994.html
After reading that, I'm gonna ask my English teacher about this. This is just plain confusing.
After reading that, I'm gonna ask my English teacher about this. This is just plain confusing.
I do it outside, and i'm american.
Ok, move aside, move aside, yes you too sir...NOW....thank you.... grammar nazi coming in.
Punctuation can get quite funky especially when it comes to quotes; there are a few rules that just don't seem to make any sense.
However, PC, yours is a simple one. It is simple and logical.
This makes no sense. Parathesis are used to butt into the sentence more severely than what a hyphen would do. Thus, what's in the parenthesis DOES NOT count or fit with the sentence structure. Your sentence should be able to stand alone if you take out the paranthesis. In this case, you would be left with:
OOPS. no period!! Thus, it is wrong.
THIS is the correct one. If you remove the parathesis and the stuff inside it, you will be left with "This is my sentence."
The only time you would have a period INSIDE the parenthesis, is if they contained a full sentence - in which case, it would NOT be embedded in another sentence. (One case would be exactly what I am doing right now; this is a sentence, but not embedded in another one, and usually used if it does have a proper place in the paragraph, and thus will end now, with a period.)
In modern English, that is wrong. That should be
"Such as this," quoth the Raven.
Punctuation can get quite funky especially when it comes to quotes; there are a few rules that just don't seem to make any sense.
However, PC, yours is a simple one. It is simple and logical.
QUOTE
This is my sentence (and I'm ending it now.)
This makes no sense. Parathesis are used to butt into the sentence more severely than what a hyphen would do. Thus, what's in the parenthesis DOES NOT count or fit with the sentence structure. Your sentence should be able to stand alone if you take out the paranthesis. In this case, you would be left with:
QUOTE
This is my sentence
OOPS. no period!! Thus, it is wrong.
QUOTE
This is my sentence (and I'm ending it now).
THIS is the correct one. If you remove the parathesis and the stuff inside it, you will be left with "This is my sentence."
The only time you would have a period INSIDE the parenthesis, is if they contained a full sentence - in which case, it would NOT be embedded in another sentence. (One case would be exactly what I am doing right now; this is a sentence, but not embedded in another one, and usually used if it does have a proper place in the paragraph, and thus will end now, with a period.)
QUOTE
"Such as this.", quoth the Raven.
In modern English, that is wrong. That should be
"Such as this," quoth the Raven.
Whenever i bracket, i use the period at the end of a sentence in fact except from other punctuation like exclamation marks and questions marks i always end with a period. Your still technically finishing a sentence, just because you have made a note or something similar in brackets shouldn't change anything. The only time i would do brackets outside of a period is when I'm writing a note with a new paragraph.
I write like this (when using parenthesis). (If I type a whole sentence in parenthesis, though, then I use it inside it.) I write the way Sp3ctre18 explained it.
Outside of the brackets is more logical to be quite honost, also looks lots better.
I'd say outside. it makes more sense.
QUOTE (MC @ Mar 5 2009, 06:43 PM)
As an American high school student, the standard practice for American-style grammatics would be to place the period inside the parenthesis. This (would be correct.) However, this (would not be correct, in our system anyway). The same goes for quotation marks.
That's strange. As an American high school student myself, I was taught to put the period outside of the parenthesis, as with quotation marks.
QUOTE (Sp3ctre18 @ Mar 8 2009, 11:22 PM)
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This makes no sense. Parathesis are used to butt into the sentence more severely than what a hyphen would do. Thus, what's in the parenthesis DOES NOT count or fit with the sentence structure. Your sentence should be able to stand alone if you take out the paranthesis. In this case, you would be left with:
OOPS. no period!! Thus, it is wrong.
THIS is the correct one. If you remove the parathesis and the stuff inside it, you will be left with "This is my sentence."
QUOTE
This is my sentence (and I'm ending it now.)
This makes no sense. Parathesis are used to butt into the sentence more severely than what a hyphen would do. Thus, what's in the parenthesis DOES NOT count or fit with the sentence structure. Your sentence should be able to stand alone if you take out the paranthesis. In this case, you would be left with:
QUOTE
This is my sentence
OOPS. no period!! Thus, it is wrong.
QUOTE
This is my sentence (and I'm ending it now).
THIS is the correct one. If you remove the parathesis and the stuff inside it, you will be left with "This is my sentence."
Yes, Sp3ctre18 is exactly right. I'm not the best at grammar, but I do know this is correct and it just makes sense.
It is interesting to see how mostly everyone is calling them 'stops' and not 'periods'.
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