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Askshameer Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Double question mark?

Is the sentence below correct?

Did you mean "How was the tournament?"?

/Sameer
  

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Awkward but inevitable, I suppose.

  • Awkward but inevitable, I suppose.
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Awkward but inevitable, I suppose.
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No, it is not. It would be "Did you mean 'How was the tournament?'"
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Then what about the question mark for "Did" Emotion: big smile

/Sameer
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Here is the rule in American English: (different sources are consistent on this rule, and I suspect British English has the same rule.)

When both the whole sentence and the unit enclosed in quotation marks are questions or exclamations, the question or exclamation mark goes inside the closing quotation mark.
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