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Could anyone match the productivity of Rogers Inc.?If a situation calls for both a comma and a stronger punctuation mark, such as a questionmark or a dash, omit the comma.If he had read “What Do Dogs Think?” he would have known the answer.While the senator couldn't endorse the proposal—and he certainly had doubts about it—he didn't condemn it.21.11.2 Order of Punctuation MarksThe most likely cases of adjacent marks of punctuation involve terminal punctuation markswith quotation marks, parentheses, or brackets. American usage follows a few reliableguidelines for ordering multiple marks.WITH QUOTATION MARKS. A final comma or period nearly always precedes a closingquotation mark, whether it is part of the quoted matter or not.In support of the effort “to bring justice to our people,” she joined the strike.She made the argument in an article titled “On ‘Managing Public Debt.’;”One exception: when single quotation marks are used to set off special terms in certain fields,such as linguistics, philosophy, and theology (see 21.10), put a period or comma after theclosing quotation mark.Some contemporary theologians, who favored ‘religionless Christianity’, were proclaiming the ‘death ofGod’.Question marks and exclamation points precede a closing quotation mark if they are part ofthe quoted matter. They follow the quotation mark if they apply to the entire sentence inwhich the quotation appears.Her poem is titled “What Did the Crow Know?”Do we accept Jefferson's concept of “a natural aristocracy”?Semicolons and colons always follow quotation marks. If the quotation ends with asemicolon or a colon, change it to a period or a comma to fit the structure of the mainsentence (see 25.3.1).He claimed that “every choice reflects an attitude toward Everyman”; his speech then enlarged on the pointin a telling way.The Emergency Center is “almost its own city”: it has its own services and governance.WITH PARENTHESES AND BRACKETS. When you enclose a complete sentence inparentheses, put the terminal period (or other terminal punctuation mark) for that sentencebefore the last parenthesis. However, put the period outside when material in parentheses,even a grammatically complete sentence, is included within another sentence. The sameprinciples apply to material in brackets.