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Punctuation Marks

The question mark is used to indicate an interrogative or question sentence. In Spanish, questions require both an opening and closing question mark. The question mark is placed at the end of interrogative sentences in English. Interrogative sentences can also start with forms of "do" or "be". A question mark should be used at the end of a tag question, which is a statement followed by a short question. Indirect questions do not require a question mark. Hyphens have several uses including compound words, numbers 21-99, fractions, and compound words created on the fly. Modern word processors provide both the em dash and en dash for setting off parenthetical elements.

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Punctuation Marks

The question mark is used to indicate an interrogative or question sentence. In Spanish, questions require both an opening and closing question mark. The question mark is placed at the end of interrogative sentences in English. Interrogative sentences can also start with forms of "do" or "be". A question mark should be used at the end of a tag question, which is a statement followed by a short question. Indirect questions do not require a question mark. Hyphens have several uses including compound words, numbers 21-99, fractions, and compound words created on the fly. Modern word processors provide both the em dash and en dash for setting off parenthetical elements.

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PUNCTUATION MARKS

Jan/19/2015

INTERROGATIVE MARK
The question mark , also known as the interrogation point, is use
for interrogative sentence.

In Spanish (since the second edition of the Ortografa of the Royal Academy
in 1754), interrogatives require both opening and closing question marks.

Example:
Ella me pregunta qu hora es?

The interrogative mark (in usa),are used at the end of all your questions.
Here is an example of a question mark being used correctly at the end of a
sentence:
Example:
What has humanity done about the growing concern of global warming?

Interrogative sentences can also start with forms of the words "do" and "be."
Examples:
Did they go to the party?
Does he like apples?

USE A QUESTION MARK AT THE END OF A TAG


QUESTION.
Tag questions are very common in English and are used to ask if you agree
with the statement.
A tag question is
Examples:
You speak English, don't you?
The dog is brown, right?

a statement
followed by a
short question.

TIPS FOR USING QUESTION MARKS


DO NOT use a question mark after an indirect question.
An indirect question is question found in a declarative sentence.
A declarative sentence is a sentence in the form of a statement. It is not a command
or question. It simply states an idea.
Incorrect: I asked her to pay the bill?
Correct: I asked her to pay the bill.
Incorrect: The teacher asked for their homework?
Correct: The teacher asked for their homework.

THE HYPHEN

The Hyphen
-

A hyphen "icon" embedded in your text


indicates either that a hyphen is called
for at that point, or (if you have a hyphen there already) that the hyphen is not
appropriate.
The rules for hyphenating at line endings are so complicated that no one can be
expected to keep track of them. If you're ever in a situation where you have to
hyphenate at line-breaks, go to a dictionaryunless you can explain why you would
break experience between the e and the r, that is, and then you can do whatever you
want. Remember that if you adjust one line-break for aesthetic reasons, that may well
affect subsequent line-breaks in the text.

HYPHENS HAVE OTHER USES


a) creating compound words, particularly modifiers before nouns (the well-known
actor, my six-year-old daughter, the out-of-date curriculum
b) writing numbers twenty-one to ninety-nine and fractions (five-eighths, one-fourth)

c) creating compounds on-the-fly for fly-by-night organizations


d) adding certain prefixes to words: When a prefix comes before a capitalized
word or the prefix is capitalized, use a hyphen (non-English, A-frame, I-formation).
The prefixes self-, all-, and ex- nearly always require a hyphen (ex-husband, allinclusive, self-control), and when the prefix ends with the same letter that begins
the word, you will often use a hyphen (anti-intellectual, de-emphasize), but not
always (unnatural, coordinate, cooperate).
There is no space between a hyphen and the character on either side of it.

THE DASH

Bob, Jeffrey, Jason, and Brett

THE DASH
Use a dash [ ] (or two hyphens [ -- ] on old-fashioned typewriters)
or dashes as a super-comma or set of super-commas to set off
parenthetical elements, especially when those elements contain
internal forms of punctuation:

All four of themBob, Jeffrey, Jason, and Brettdid well in college

Modern word processors provide for two kinds of dashes: the regular dash
or em dash (which is the same width as the letter "M," ) and the en dash
(which is about half the width, the same as the letter "N," ).
We use the em dash for most purposes and keep its smaller brother, the en
dash, for marking the space between dates in a chronological range:
"Kennedy's presidency (19611963) marked an extraordinary era. . . ."; in
time: 6:308:45 p.m.; and between numbers and letters in an indexing
scheme: table 13C, CT Statute 144A.

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