Education English | Question Mark (?) | According to surayin (1999: 511) question mark is used:
1. Question mark is used at the end of direct question.
Examples: Is he here?
Who said that?
2. Question mark is not used at the end of indirect question.
Examples: He asked what the assigment was.
She asked whether we went to the show.
Meanwhile McCaskill (1998: 69) states that the purpose of the question mark is to terminate a direct question, whether the question is an independent sentence, a clause within sentence, or a direct quotation:
• What system identification procedure should be used for a statically unstable aircraft?
• The question addressed by this research project is, What system identification procedure should be used for a statically unstable aircraft?
When the direct question occurs within a sentence (as in the second example above), the author may or may not choose to capitalize the first word of the question.
1. When the question is a single word, such as when, how, or why, within a sentence, neither a question mark nor a capital is necessary; the word is often
italicized:
• The announcement should answer the question who, what, where, when, and why.
Harvey (2008: 246) calls question mark ask interrogation point. He says that the interogation point denotes that a question is asked.
1. The interrogation point should be used at the end of an interrogative sentence.
Examples: Were you there?
By whom was this extraordinary work of art executed?
1. Question mark is used at the end of direct question.
Examples: Is he here?
Who said that?
2. Question mark is not used at the end of indirect question.
Examples: He asked what the assigment was.
She asked whether we went to the show.
Meanwhile McCaskill (1998: 69) states that the purpose of the question mark is to terminate a direct question, whether the question is an independent sentence, a clause within sentence, or a direct quotation:
• What system identification procedure should be used for a statically unstable aircraft?
• The question addressed by this research project is, What system identification procedure should be used for a statically unstable aircraft?
When the direct question occurs within a sentence (as in the second example above), the author may or may not choose to capitalize the first word of the question.
1. When the question is a single word, such as when, how, or why, within a sentence, neither a question mark nor a capital is necessary; the word is often
italicized:
• The announcement should answer the question who, what, where, when, and why.
Harvey (2008: 246) calls question mark ask interrogation point. He says that the interogation point denotes that a question is asked.
1. The interrogation point should be used at the end of an interrogative sentence.
Examples: Were you there?
By whom was this extraordinary work of art executed?
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