Posts Tagged as ‘question mark’

December 27, 2008

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 the quote marks? How about a question mark? A comma? An exclamation point?
The answer? All of [...]

November 8, 2008

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 exclamation point should be first?
What the hell happened here?!
Well, according to my bible, the Chicago [...]