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Remember when you were first starting to learn about grammar and you first saw a question
mark? Now that deserves a little investigating. Remember that thing that looked like that?
Hi, I'm Paige Carrera and today we're taking a closer look at when to use question marks
and pretty simply you use them after a direct question is asked. Let's take a look at four
examples to give you a better idea. This first one is pretty easy. Does your gum lose flavor
after an hour? You're asking a direct question and because of this, does here signals that
and you want to put your proper quotation at the end, your proper question mark at the
end of the sentence because you are asking a question. Now this one, this is indirect,
this is pretty funny. He asked me to drop dead. Now you're not really asking me to drop
dead, its understood this person is asking me to drop dead and its basically an indirect
question and you don't need to put a question mark on the end because this is pretty much
a statement, its kind of one of those sarcastic things. This is an easy one too. Will you
please turn down the TV. This is an example of pretty much a polite command that is used
in writing when you want to ask something but you don't necessarily have to have the
question mark at the end. You'd see something like this too in class when you hear your
teacher say please put your pencils down. That's another good example. Third one too
is if you're writing a quote, just remember to keep the question mark itself inside the
quote. So if Bill asks do you like me? This should not be outside of the quotations because
it's part of this quote here so all the punctuation needs to go inside these quotation marks.
Happy writing, I'm Paige Carrera.