Timeline for Should a question mark be used when describing a question but not asking the question?
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| Aug 8, 2019 at 4:39 | comment | added | Kris | Welcome to ELU. The sentence is formed incorrectly. There is no inversion in the second part, no parallelism. "Bob Smith, creates a film that questions what the best way to raise child is and what happiness is in the first place." HTH. See also English Language Learners, especially if you are non-native speaker of the English language. Good Luck. | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 2:13 | answer | added | user348132 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 0:10 | comment | added | Hot Licks | A good test of whether a question mark should be used or not is to ask yourself whether the sentence would be pronounced with the intonation (mainly a rising tone in the last syllables) that implies that a question is being asked. | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 23:27 | answer | added | J. Taylor | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 21:48 | comment | added | S Conroy | To get extra-pedantic, the sentence isn't consistent in the indirect question word-order. The second item should be and what happiness is in the first place. | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 21:11 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | But a question can be used as a reference within a statement. "I asked him How old are you? and he wouldn't answer." The sentence ends with a period, since it's a statement, but it contains a question mark since the referenced question (with a question mark) is part of the overall statement. (Embedded quotation marks can also be used rather than italics.) | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 21:06 | comment | added | Weather Vane | No, it is not a question. I asked "what is the best way?" – I asked what the best way is. | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 21:04 | comment | added | Gus | Should "what the best way to raise child is" have a question mark after it? | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 21:03 | comment | added | Gus | It is a statement. | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 21:00 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | What are the sentences? | |
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| Aug 7, 2019 at 20:57 | comment | added | marcellothearcane | Is it a question or a statement? | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 20:55 | history | asked | Gus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |