Originally Posted by
crappieseeker
I have to write an essay for my English class and my teacher is very critical of proper punctuation. Can any of you English masters tell me if my punctuation is correct in this first sentence. Does the comma go inside the quotation marks or after? Also we have a guide that says everything is suppose to be written in present tense and to me Rome is built should be Rome was built, but according to the rule "is" is the correct way. Do I capitalize Ancient? As you can tell it has been a long time since I have had any English