So I’m thinking I’d like to offer my readers some punctuation marks in my next several columns to be use liberally in life. To begin with, I’m thinking question marks are essential to the ...

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 ...

Placement with other punctuation: A period or comma always go inside closing quotation marks. ("We hope to win the game," he said.) A dash, semicolon, question mark and exclamation point go inside ...

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 ...