Comments on: The Question Mark http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-question-mark/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:00:10 -0600 hourly 1 By: Sharon Hurley Hall http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-question-mark/comment-page-1/#comment-40352 Sharon Hurley Hall Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:33:49 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=845#comment-40352 Agreed, PreciseEdit, which is a point made in this piece: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/warning-microsoft-did-not-invent-grammar/ Thanks for the examples, LeisureGuy Agreed, PreciseEdit, which is a point made in this piece: http://www.dailywritingtips.co.....t-grammar/

Thanks for the examples, LeisureGuy

]]> By: PreciseEdit http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-question-mark/comment-page-1/#comment-39648 PreciseEdit Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:07:56 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=845#comment-39648 We often have to fix errors when question marks are used incorrectly, such as in this sentence: How he got there was anybody's guess? Some grammar checkers will recommend using the question mark in this sample because the sentence begins with a common interrogative word: "How." Grammar checkers are not trustworthy. We often have to fix errors when question marks are used incorrectly, such as in this sentence:

How he got there was anybody’s guess?

Some grammar checkers will recommend using the question mark in this sample because the sentence begins with a common interrogative word: “How.”

Grammar checkers are not trustworthy.

]]> By: Leisureguy http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-question-mark/comment-page-1/#comment-38308 Leisureguy Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:07:42 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=845#comment-38308 Both the question mark and the exclamation mark indicate tone and thus do not necessarily end the sentence---i.e., they are not necessarily followed by a capital letter. Examples (from <em>The Reader Over Your Shoulder</em>, by Robert Graves and Alan Hodge): And then, horror! in march Mrs. Blackstone with the little corpse held out accusingly between the pincers of the kitchen fire-tongs! That she had asked herself, was he really there? or was she imagining things? now troubled her conscience. Both the question mark and the exclamation mark indicate tone and thus do not necessarily end the sentence—i.e., they are not necessarily followed by a capital letter.

Examples (from The Reader Over Your Shoulder, by Robert Graves and Alan Hodge):

And then, horror! in march Mrs. Blackstone with the little corpse held out accusingly between the pincers of the kitchen fire-tongs!

That she had asked herself, was he really there? or was she imagining things? now troubled her conscience.

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