Standard English ConventionsEasyQuestion mark in a direct question
Standard English Conventions practice question
The study began with a simple question: how far do the monarch butterflies actually ____ Tagging thousands of wings produced the astonishing answer.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. migrate?Correct
- B. migrate.
- C. migrate,
- D. migrate
Answer: A. migrate?
The sentence is a direct question ('How far do the butterflies migrate?') and needs a question mark.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. migrate.
- A period ends a statement, but this sentence asks a direct question.
- C. migrate,
- A comma cannot end a sentence.
- D. migrate
- The sentence must end with some punctuation, and for a question that is a question mark.
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