{"id":753,"date":"2012-02-10T16:06:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/?p=753"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:33:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:33:49","slug":"punctuation-how-to-use-the-question-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/punctuation-how-to-use-the-question-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Punctuation: How to Use the Question Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>question mark<\/strong> also known as <strong>interrogation mark<\/strong> is used at the end of interrogative sentences. It is used only with direct questions not with indirect questions. Below are the rules to use this punctuation mark.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 At the end of the direct question.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<p>Where are you going?<\/p>\n<p>What is your name?<\/p>\n<p>How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 After tag question<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<p>You like this, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>He is a nice person, isn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 Not used after indirect or reported question<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<p>The teacher asked him why he did not come to the school the day before.<\/p>\n<p>Harry asked her mother if he could come with her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 Not used with polite requests and instructions<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<p>Would you please tell me the way to exit.<\/p>\n<p>Could you please send me an invite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SchoolTutoring Academy is the premier educational services company for K-12 and college students. We offer tutoring programs for students in K-12, AP classes, and college. To learn more about how we help parents and students in Brockville visit: <a href=\"..\/..\/tutoring-in-brockville\/\">Tutoring in Brockville<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question mark also known as interrogation mark is used at the end of interrogative sentences. It is used only with direct questions not with indirect questions. Below are the rules to use this punctuation mark. &#8211;\u00a0 At the end of the direct question. Example: Where are you going? What is your name? How are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1443,1445,1464],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-and-grammar","tag-punctuation","tag-punctuationmark","tag-questionmark"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}