When ending a sentence with a word that makes use of quotations,where do you place the period?

Madie Strople: They always go inside. He liked the movie so much that as we were leaving the theater he said, "I can't wait to see that again."

Cierra Gadbaw: "I believe it's before the quotations."

Coralie Goldsberry: i usually put it outside the quotation marks. supposing it's for a paper and that you have to cite a line or page number after the quote, then it's appropriate for the period to go outside of the quotation marks because you do your citation before the period.i.e. Outside, “she could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life” (Chopin 659).but if you're not doing a paper, i don't really know (or at least i can't logically explain it). i've noticed that most of my teachers put their punctuations inside of quotes when they're writing notes on the boardedit: wow, what a nice flock of answers lmfao. i would deduce that as a general rule to punctuate inside quotation marks, but when ! you need to cite something like i did, you put it outside the quotation (and i say that because i've been doing that for the past 3 years and my teachers haven't nagged at me about it once haha). well anyways, good luck...Show more

Clare Hoard: That is a matter of style, and possibly of national taste; Americans often differ from Britons. See Lynne Truss' book "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves".

Bernie Cerra: Outside the quotations; unless it's a question.