A question mark ( ? ) is used to close a direct question. (What time is it?) Do not use a question mark with an indirect question. (He asked if we knew the time.) Put a question mark inside closing ...

“I’m writing.” The comma is between the tagline and dialogue. With dialogue ending a sentence, the period should stay within the quotation marks. This pertains to dialogue without parenthetical ...

Question marks and exclamation marks go at the end of a sentence and they tell us what type of sentence it is. Using different sentence types helps makes your writing more interesting. In Jackie ...

Colons and semicolons are always placed outside quotation marks. Ex: John wrote, "I'm sorry that I won't be able to come home for Christmas"; however, he managed to get some time off. Question marks ...