Select the correct answer:
1. For Sale signs sprang up on the lawns.
2. “For Sale” signs sprang up on the lawns.
3. For Sale signs sprang up on the lawns.
For the last 6 weeks I’ve been proofreading my book. It’s all typeset and should be ready to go. You’d think I would have caught every single thing now, after 5 years of working it. But, no! There are so many things that I start to wonder about. Punctuation: Does the comma go inside or outside the parenthesis? Grammar: Is it, “The pair of shoes she already had was perfectly fine.” --- or, “The pair of shoes she already had were perfectly fine.” Sometimes I’ll Google these questions and find the rules are different for Britain and the States. But what about Canada? It’s been an education, but I don’t think I’ll ever completely figure out the comma!
If you picked the first answer above, you’re right.