Punctuation a must not have?

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May I know what other instances there are that does not require a punctuation? Or any incomplete sentences can be a heading?

I was thinking along the lines of such a phrase being at the start of a sentence like:" How to be a diva? Here are some tips..."

Is that still wrong too?

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centrist12May I know what other instances there are that does not require a punctuation? Or any incomplete sentences can be a heading?

A sentence in paragraph text -- whether it is a grammatically full sentence or a fragment used as a sentence -- must always be terminated by some kind of punctuation stop: either a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark. This is the only way we know that one sentence has ended and another is beginning.

Headings normally do not have full stops. This is a convention of writing. However, headings do have question marks if they are questions, and can have exclamation marks if considered exclamations.

Headings are often phrases or other fragments rather than grammatically full sentences.

centrist12I was thinking along the lines of such a phrase being at the start of a sentence like:" How to be a diva? Here are some tips..." Is that still wrong too?

In this case "How to be a diva?" is not "at the start of a sentence", it is a sentence.

To me, "How to be a diva?" with a question mark looks unexpected or unlikely. I cannot categorically say that it is impossible.

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