Feb 24, 2017 · I believe that modern practice is to use the question mark as an answer-invitation marker. Thus the declarative question 'You're going to see Bill?' needs one to show it isn't a …

Where should the period go when using parentheses? For example: In sentence one, I use this example (which has a parenthesis at the end.) Should the period be inside, or outside of the parentheses?

If you phrased your sentence, I wonder, why is that? it would require a question mark as well. The distinction is not where "I wonder" occurs, but the subject-verb inversion in "why is that"/"why that is". …

If you define a sentence as "anything beginning with a capital letter and ending in a period", then obviously your fragment is one sentence. If you define a sentence as "a syntactically complete …

Aug 7, 2016 · To me, it seems like "as does/as do" has opposite meanings in these two examples. Does the meaning of the phrase "as does" depend on the context or is there something I'm …

Jun 2, 2012 · I often hear US citizens say something like this: <Some phrases>. Period. What does period mean when it appears in a sentence by itself in this type of situation?

If the proverb weren't a full sentence, I would immediately put a single period after the quote, at the very end. But if it is a sentence, which period should be removed so that there is only one period?

Jan 20, 2011 · A sentence like Could you please pass me the pepper shaker is not really a question. Should I use a question mark or a period to end this sentence? What about: Could you let me know …

May 9, 2023 · In my experience, it is extremely unusual in U.S. publishing style to include a period at the end a complete-sentence quotation that appears in the midst of a longer sentence of original text. As …

Residual discomfort with violating the “rule” against starting a sentence with a conjunction — people who are insecure are more likely to grasp at a misuse as a solution. It's a sort of hypercorrection. An effort …