Does Question Mark Go Inside Quotes?
Place a Question Mark or Exclamation Point Within Closing Quotation Marks If the Punctuation Applies to the Quotation Itself. Place the Punctuation Outside the...
Place a question mark or exclamation point within closing quotation marks if the punctuation applies to the quotation itself. Place the punctuation outside the closing quotation marks if the punctuation applies to the whole sentence. Phillip asked, "Do you need this book?"
How do you put a question mark in quotations?
- When the quotation itself is a question, put the question mark inside the quotation marks. ...
- When the sentence as a whole is a question, but the quoted material is not, put the question mark outside the quotation marks.
Where do you put a question mark?
Put a question mark at the end of a sentence that is, in fact, a direct question. (Sometimes writers will simply forget.) Rhetorical questions (asked when an answer is not really expected), by the way, are questions and deserve to end with a question mark: How else should we end them, after all?
Alexander Ross has covered the video game industry for a decade, writing deep dives on game design, esports tournaments, VR developments, and gaming culture.
