The omission of the opening mark is common in informal writing, but is considered an error. Question marks must always be matched, but to mark uncertainty rather than actual interrogation omitting the opening one is allowed, although discouraged: 1 An interrogative sentence, clause, or phrase begins with an Inverted question mark and exclamation point|inverted question mark and ends with the question mark, as in: In Spanish language|Spanish, since the second edition of the Ortografía of the Royal Academy in 1754, interrogatives require both opening and closing question marks. Question mark - Opening and closing question marks
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However, interrogative requests typically use a full stop (period) rather than a question mark: This is quite common in Spanish, where the use of bracketing question marks explicitly marks the scope of interrogation.Ī question mark may also appear immediately after questionable data, such as dates: However, it may also occur at the end of a clause or phrase, where it replaces the comma:See also question comma. In English, the question mark typically occurs at the end of a sentence, where it replaces the full stop (period). The Syriac question mark has the form of a vertical double dot. Īccording to a 2011 discovery by a Cambridge manuscript expert, Syriac was the first language to use a punctuation mark to indicate an interrogative sentence. (link down) Over the next three centuries this pitchdefining element (if it ever existed) seems to have been forgotten, so that the Alcuinesque stroke-over-dot sign (with the stroke sometimes slightly curved) is often seen indifferently at the end of clauses, whether they embody a question or not. Parkes, Pause and effect: punctuation in the west, ISBN 18. Lynne Truss attributes an early form of the modern question mark in western language to Alcuin|Alcuin of York.Lynne Truss The question mark glyph is also often used in place of missing or unknown data
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