Standard English ConventionsVery hardQuestion mark inside a quoted question
Standard English Conventions practice question
The interviewer asked only one question: 'What would you change ____
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. first?'Correct
- B. first.'
- C. first'?
- D. first?'.
Answer: A. first?'
The quoted words are a question, so the question mark sits inside the closing quotation mark.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. first.'
- A full stop turns the quoted question into a statement.
- C. first'?
- The question mark belongs to the quotation, inside the mark.
- D. first?'.
- No full stop after a question mark.
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