Standard English ConventionsVery hardQuestion mark for a direct question inside a sentence
Standard English Conventions practice question
The question every visitor asks is the same: how did the builders lift the ____
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. stones?Correct
- B. stones.
- C. stones!
- D. stones;
Answer: A. stones?
The sentence ends with the direct question itself.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. stones.
- A full stop turns the question into a statement.
- C. stones!
- No exclamation.
- D. stones;
- A sentence cannot end with a semicolon.
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