Understanding Question Marks in English

What punctuation mark is used at the end of a direct question?

• Exclamation mark

• Period

• Comma

• Question mark

Which of the following sentences correctly uses a question mark?

• What is your name?

• What is your name?.

• What is your name,

• What is your name!

In a quoted question ending mid-sentence, what replaces the comma?

• Period

• Exclamation mark

• Question mark

• Semicolon

How should a question mark be used with quotation marks if it applies to the quoted words?

• Inside the quotation marks

• Outside the quotation marks

• Before the quotation marks

• After a period

What punctuation is used at the end of an indirect question?

• Question mark

• Semicolon

• Exclamation mark

• Period

Which of the following is an example of an indirect question?

• Where does Bobby live?

• Can my boyfriend come to the wedding?

• What time is it?

• I wonder where Bobby lives.

Which of the following is a tag question?

• This is a book.

• I wonder if he knows.

• Where are you going?

• You are coming, aren't you?

What is the correct punctuation for the sentence: 'Carlos speaks Spanish, doesn't he?'

• Carlos speaks Spanish, doesn't he!

• Carlos speaks Spanish, doesn't he,

• Carlos speaks Spanish, doesn't he?

• Carlos speaks Spanish, doesn't he.

Which sentence correctly uses a question mark with a tag question?

• Today is Monday, isn't it?

• Today is Monday, isn't it!

• Today is Monday, isn't it,

• Today is Monday, isn't it.

What is the correct punctuation for the sentence: 'Do you know my uncle?'

• Do you know my uncle.

• Do you know my uncle?

• Do you know my uncle!

• Do you know my uncle,