Quotation marks
By the way, here is one other punctuation point. Americans always put the
period before closing quotation marks. It looks like this: I say “this is difficult.”
In Britain, however, periods after a few words in a sentence go outside
the quotation marks, as in I say “this is difficult”. If the quotation is a complete
sentence in British English, the quotation marks are outside the period,
just as they are in US English. In Canada, either way is acceptable, but I have
found the US version is more common. Just be consistent with whichever
you choose.
There, this grammar chapter wasn’t so bad, was it.