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Ellycat Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Punctuation.

After I've typed a sentence which requires a question mark; does the question mark always denote the end of a sentence and therefore the next word will always begin with a capital letter, or is this not always the case? I ask this because the following sentence from a cricket website confused me regarding the question I've asked.

`What's that up there?' Asked Jepson, looking skywards. `The moon,' replied Bond. `Well how far do you want to see?' concluded Arthur.

Much appreciated in advance.
  

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The capitalisation of "Asked" is wrong. It should be "asked". Unrelated picky point: it's not good style to use the "backtick" character ` as an opening quote.

— Mr Wordy

  • The capitalisation of "Asked" is wrong.
  • It should be "asked".
  • Unrelated picky point: it's not good style to use the "backtick" character ` as an opening quote.
  • In an environment where proper typographic ("curly") quotes are unavailable or awkward to use, just use the ordinary straight quote '
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The capitalisation of "Asked" is wrong. It should be "asked".

Unrelated picky point: it's not good style to use the "backtick" character ` as an opening quote. In an environment where proper typographic ("curly") quotes are unavailable or awkward to use, just use the ordinary straight quote '
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No, I never use the "backtick" character as an opening quote, as I pasted this paragraph from a cricket website and never paid attention to this bad style.

Many thanks again.

PS. I hope you don't mind but I have some more questions regarding punctuation that need answering.
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EllycatNo, I never use the "backtick" character as an opening quote, as I pasted this paragraph from a cricket website and never paid attention to this bad style.

Sorry, my mistake.
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So a question mark doesn't always denote the end of a sentence?
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Ellycat
So a question mark doesn't always denote the end of a sentence?

Normally yes, but in your example the question mark denotes the end of the sentence that is being quoted, not of the containing sentence that is doing the quoting.
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Thanks, Mr Wordy. [Y]
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