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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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Thanks, everyone. According to The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style: With other punctuation Put commas and periods inside closing quotation marks; put colons and semicolons outside. Other punctuation, such as exclamation
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jingtian
50 days ago
Commas, Punctuation, Colons, Semicolons, Quotation Marks, Question Marks, Writing, Usages, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States, American, Languages, Styles
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First of all --> There should not be any quotation marks around the title of a play, book, newspaper, work of art, etc. Remove the quotation marks and put Oklahoma! into italics . http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/italics.htm Now, with
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The accepted method is: "Is that you , Susan?" he asked the maid downstairs . There are two 'rules' involved here. (1) The punctuation within the quoation marks belongs to the quote or utterance and is not a punctuation of the overall sentence.
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"American grammer". Why not put two full stops. "American grammer.". or Mix it up with a question mark and a full stop. "American grammer?". Yoong Liat wrote: AmE places the quotation marks outside. I think the
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Avangi! You're a wonderful help. Thank you so much. I was under the impression that the punctuation marks - commas, question marks, colons, semicolons, and periods - belonged to the statement within quotation marks, and that titles were
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I am not clear as to what you are asking. I in English is always capitalized. It is never written "i" unless you are the poet e.e. cummings. 1. Perhaps "I must be good to have been able to do all of that" I am not clear
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. Are your DVDs scratched up?-- I'd call it a predicate adjective Also is my question sentence correct? -- Yes, but your last quotation mark is misplaced. Do I need to put question mark after adjective?-- No . .
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OK. I have a title that contains an exclamation point, e.g., Oklahoma!, it comes at the end of a question. Do I add the question mark at the end of the sentence, or treat the title as if it is a quotation and leave the question mark off, ending
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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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Capital Letters, Numbers, Colons, Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Question Marks, Exclamation Marks, Hyphens, Semicolons
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