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To: ManyMoose who wrote (2126)11/8/2009 3:59:08 PM
From: SmoothSail  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 9626
 
‘You are invited,’ they said, ‘We are having a party tonight.’”

What some people do is put the single quote inside the period.



To: ManyMoose who wrote (2126)11/8/2009 4:11:55 PM
From: Jim S  Respond to of 9626
 



To: ManyMoose who wrote (2126)11/8/2009 4:12:52 PM
From: Jim S  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9626
 
Yep, the apostrophe is used for a quote within a quote.

The Moose asked, "how do you really do such punctuation? Jim said, 'use apostrophes,' but I'm not sure he's correct."


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