“As I was rounding the bend,” Peter explained, “I failed to see the sign”.

Just what would you like us to do with this?

Sra

And it is grammar

The period at the end of the sentence belongs BEFORE the ending quotation marks.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm

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