By Question marks, Punctuation

Hi Tuongvan, you have continuing problems with spacing around punctuation. You do not need spaces before question marks: Who could have broken it ? -- incorrect (or non-standard) Who could have broken it? -- correct When you use a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon, put a single space...

An ellipsis is properly used only to indicate that text has been omitted. There are people writing these days who seem to know no other form of punctuation besides the ellipses, and, although they don't seem committed to always using exatly three dots, do seem dedicate to using in place of...

qtDear Mark, I had the same question and found this online. Hope it helps! Lynn 1. Punctuation with parentheses. As in the model sentence above, periods and other end punctuation go outside the close of a parenthesis. No punctuation mark can precede a parenthesis, but a comma can follow...

I guess I'm inclined to treat the punctuation as just another character. I'm even more inclined to adopt the BrE method, at which point the whole question becomes moot.Thus, using the BrE method,"Oklahoma!", the classic musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, will...No muss, no fuss.

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 to say - "Oklahoma!" the classic musical...

Please note that American English likes to place the final punctuation mark inside a title or quotation, even though it doesn't form part of it.The British regard this practice as illogical.AmE: He's always wanted to read "Moby Dick," "Oliver Twist" and...

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 told me," I want to go out. " or She told me," I want to...

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. " or She told me," I want to go out".) -- Most...

Grammar Geek wrote: But we can't change the actual book title. If the title of the book is Who Shot Mr. Gordon? then Who Shot Mr. Gordon? it must remain. Thanks, Barbara. I overlooked that. I thought it was a question mark at the end of the post. The question mark should remain. The...

Futurehuman11 wrote: In the sentence below, I'm not sure if I should use punctuation (e.g. a comma or colon) before the quote. Help! Knight, who was on probation because of previous incidents, was fired in 2000, after 29 years at Indiana, for grabbing the arm of freshman Kent Harvey, who...