"Can you please clear put this document in the folde r? "-- The question mark is still required; it remains a question: 'Could you?'. The same holds true for 'Would you', 'Do you mind if', etc.

hi, I have a doubt regarding indirect questions. If i use an indirect question beginning with "Can", should i make use of question mark (?) at the end of the question? For example, consider the following statement :

Hi, I have a question regarding the use of question marks. In the following text do we infact need question marks? They are indirect questions are they not? ** ** ** I would appreciate it if you could send me more information about to where the

einde. ocallaghan wrote on 15 Dec 2004: Which of these two sentences is correct? I have friends ... ... and thus needing a question mark to end it. The second is the correct version since it's an indirect question. Yes, but it's a bit

The topic to look up in a reference guide would be "indirect questions." I looked, and all I could find is stuff about when to use question marks. Nothing about the fine disctinctions in word order when either order means the same thing.

Not that I don't believe that, but where can one check these kind of things? They seemed equivalent to me. The topic to look up in a reference guide would be "indirect questions." I looked, and all I could find is stuff about when to

One more time. Would you place a question mark at the end of the following sentences: 1) How could the ... ok, I just wanted to know if I'm upsetting you at all. Would I classify both of these as rhetorical? No. I would classify them both as