About this episode
Denise and Louise talk about how to use question marks in fiction and non-fiction according to convention.
Listen To Find Out More About:
- Direct questions
- Indirect questions
- How-to statements
- Idiomatic phrases and question marks
- Double punctuation
- Uncertain dates and date ranges
- Indicating uncertainty
Mentioned In The Show
- But Can I Start A Sentence With “But”? by Carol Saller
- Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal
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‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
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