Tag Archives: exclamation point
Innie or Outie?
No, I’m not going to vent about belly buttons. I’m talking about (and a reader asked about) properly placing punctuation (alliterations later!) at the end of a sentence when quotation marks are involved. Does the period go inside or outside … Continue reading
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Double Whammy
Have you ever been faced with the dilemma of writing a sentence that was both a question and an exclamation, and you didn’t know what punctuation to use? And if you used both, you didn’t know whether the question mark or … Continue reading
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Point Taken!
I’m all for enthusiasm and energy ― in speech and in writing ― but I just can’t handle a writer’s overzealous use of the exclamation point. You know what I’m talking about. The email from your friend on vacation in … Continue reading
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