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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

PROPER PUNCUATION USE

in the sentence why do these mashed potatoes look green where do the proper puncuation marks go
  

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All sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a period, question mark or exclamation mark. In this case, these two rules are all that is needed. The correct style is: Why do these mashed potatoes look green?

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  • All sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a period, question mark or exclamation mark.
  • In this case, these two rules are all that is needed.
  • The correct style is: Why do these mashed potatoes look green?
  • Below is one way to properly punctuate your whole question (while leaving the actual problem sentence unpunctuated and uncapitalised): In the sentence "why do these mashed potatoes look green", where do the proper punctuation marks go?
  • Note how the quotation marks are used to separate the words you are asking about from the words of the question itself.
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All sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a period, question mark or exclamation mark. In this case, these two rules are all that is needed. The correct style is:

Why do these mashed potatoes look green?

Below is one way to properly punctuate your whole question (while leaving the actual problem sentence unpunctuated and uncapitalised):

In the sentence "why
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