"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 :

These all look OK to me, apart from "When did you realise that you are an adult?", which would almost always be better as "When did you realise (that) you were an adult?". There are also some potentially dubious uses of the

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

So, if I were to construct a sentence that began as a question but ended as a sentence, which punctuation mark should I use. For instance: "What did you think of him because I thought he was great." OR "What did you think of him

If the word Inc. is at the end of a question do you still use the period before the interrog?

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