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Re: The question mark/comma/quotation mark debacle

RayH — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:30:19 GMT

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 "The Great Gatsby."

BrE: He's always wanted to read "Moby Dick", "Oliver Twist" and "The Great Gatsby".

Here is the link to the site this came from if you want to check it yourself. The relevant section is near the bottom of the screen under the heading "quotation marks".

HTH

http://www.davidappleyard.com/english/punctuation.htm

Re: Question mark or period or what??

Clive — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:15:18 GMT

Hi,

Some questions I have about the profession are what schooling is required, what is the salary like, do you have to pass a certification test, what type of annual training is required, how is the working environment, what are the hours like, what type of people will be worked with, what type of benefits are received, what are the physical requirements, and what type of overall attitude is needed?

The probem is that you are writing the questions in direct speech, and therefore quotes are required.

Some questions I have about the profession are "What schooling is required?", "What is the salary like?', "Do you have to pass a certification test?", "What type of annual training is required?", "How is the working environment?", "What are the hours like?", "What type of people will be worked with?", "What type of benefits are received?", "What are the physical requirements?", and "What type of overall attitude is needed?"

Or you could write it all more indirectly. eg With regard to the profession, I have questions about the schooling required, the salary, whether a certification test is required, . . . . etc.

Or you could, in business style writing, format it like this, more simply.

Here are some questions that I have about the profession. What schooling is required? What is the salary like? Do you have to pass a certification test? What type of annual training is required? etc.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: look forward to (be/being) ?

Avangi — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:44:08 GMT

Njjames wrote:
Hi all, its me again, I decided to sign up a screen name

Thank you guys very much for your helpful information.
Avangi, Thanks very much for correcting me. I corrected my signature in my profile, but I have a question regarding "help me to improve", is it also right to say "help me improve my English" ? I hear people at TV say it like this, but I'm not sure if they really are not saying "to" or if its just me who is not hearing the word "to"? Also, did I phrase my previous question correctly as native English (American or British) speakers would do ?

Thanks again for your helpful posts.
Regards,

Hi Njj,

I was kicking myself for sticking the "to" in there (to improve.) We used to say, "the 'to' is understood." When I look at something I've written a day before, I find [that] it reads much better if I take out all the junk (such as the "that" I just put in brackets.)

Re the "previous question," it sounds great to my ear, but I don't believe it's a question. Nix the question mark. "Its" wants an apostrophe. (The contraction takes one; the posessive pronoun doesn't .)

Regards, - A.

Edit. We say, "people on TV."

Re: Question mark's position within quotes

Hoa Thai — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:21:03 GMT

Tanit wrote:

I guess nobody can lose or win here ... arguments supporting either views can be found!

Cool Breeze wrote:

One will do. Two may look prettier to some. You don't seriously think there is agreement on a thing like this?

Thank you all for the comments! It is never too late to find helpful and constructive opinions; BTW, I did happily take my friend out to dinner tonight.

I could certainly show this to her tommorow morning; and maybe she will return in kind with lunch.

Good way for friends to find reasons to go out and have fun together anyway.

Best Regards,
Hoa Thai

Re: Some qeutions about greunds and infinitves

Yoong Liat — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:31:03 GMT

what those sentnces mean (What do those sentences mean?)

I apprcited being invited to your home (I appreciated being invited to your home.)

in incorrect english does it mean : "to be invited" ? (In incorrect English, does it mean "to be invited"?)

another thing

"sometimes adolcents complain about not being understood by their parents"

(Sometimes adolescents ... parents.)

two of the sentnces have a same form? (... sentences have the same form?)

what's up (What's up?)

If you see spelling errors please fix me (If you see spelling errors, please correct them.)

Remember to start every sentence with a capital letter and end it with a question mark or a full stop.

I've also corrected your spelling errors.

Best regards

Re: short story

Yoong Liat — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:36:07 GMT

Hi Feebs11

Oh dear! You've spotted a missing question mark after 'neck'. How careless of me! Thanks for doing a fine job.
One question for you: All the mice except one thought that this was a good idea. They were very happy that they had finally found a way to deal with the cat. (Why do you change 'it' to 'this'? I thought 'it' was okay?)

Best regards

Re: Lebanon is burning, Who is next

Janissary — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:24:58 GMT

It wasnt ,actually, a question Ruslana. I just used the question mark as a way to compare what is recollected and what is not.In other words,what is known and what is unknown. That is to say, what is supposed to be known and what is supposd to be unknown

Regards

Question Marks

Dj Bueno — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:48:46 GMT

I just wanted to let you know that those red question marks next to the titles sometimes drive me crazy.Although the topic is about asomething general-has nothing to do with finding out an answer- people do not attempt to change their threads' status. Can't we put a warning thread so as to put an end to that craze?

Regards,

DjB

? Or .

Guest — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:37:34 GMT

Should the sentence "Let me know when will you go there" be terminated with a question mark (?) or should it be terminated with a period (.)? I'm getting confused because though the sentence is asking a question, it begins with 'Let me know' after which only the question starts!

I guess many might find my question childish but then what can one expect from a chld

Thank you very much.

Warm Regards.

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Apostrophe

Guest — Wed, 25 May 2005 03:25:46 GMT

I know that quoting names is to be written surrounded by apostrophies, and sentences or words that are quotes of speech should be surrounded by, surprisingly, speech marks.

Now...

I'm curious as to where apostrophies and speech marks go with regards to stops and commas, question marks and other seperating symbols.

For example, which is correct?:

Mr. X said that "likes blue carrots."

Mr. X said that "likes blue carrots".

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"Your name is Paul," said Jason.
"I don't think my name really is 'Paul,' is it?" James retorted.

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