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There is none. Question marks, exclamation marks and periods are mutually exclusive: they never occur together except for the informal '?!' to express consternation.
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Here is the rule in American English: (different sources are consistent on this rule, and I suspect British English has the same rule.) When both the whole sentence and the unit enclosed in quotation marks are questions or exclamations, the
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alpheccastars
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Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.
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clive
1 yr 2 days ago
Capital Letters, Numbers, Colons, Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Question Marks, Exclamation Marks, Hyphens, Semicolons
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Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.
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emchapps
1 yr 2 days ago
Capital Letters, Dates, Numbers, Colons, Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Question Marks, Exclamation Marks, Hyphens, Semicolons
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Hi Ray,
Thanks for your help, however, I was wondering if there should be a comma when you have the title of a play (or book, or movie, etc.) with punctuation (like a question mark of exclamation mark) as part of the actual title. If I wanted
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My colleague and I have been wondering about this for a while...If you're referring to a title with a question mark or exclamation mark, which typically requires quotation marks around it, should you use a comma along with exclamation mark and
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Mister Micawber wrote:
1) What can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when there is a catastrophe happens? -- (Emergency) Aid packages? Air drops?
2) About punctuation, should we punctuate before or after the : She
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1) What can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when there is a catastrophe happens? -- (Emergency) Aid packages? Air drops?
2) About punctuation, should we punctuate before or after the : She told me , " I want to go out . "
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I believe that the ghost that has appeared before me truly is my father’s spirit, and that everything it has said is true. The ghost did not flee before Horatio’s “cross,” and it shows Christian forbearance towards my “common” mother. Thus, I
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"The way I learned it (which may or may not be right), commas and periods always go inside the quotation marks. Question marks and exclamation marks go inside the quotation marks if they refer to the quote, and outside if they refer to the
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