"Question mark" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... humor or irony 97. The Apostrophe: a In contractions; b To form the possessive; c To form the possessive of nouns ending in s; d Not used with personal possessive pronouns; e To form the plural of certain signs and letters 98. The Question Mark: a After a direct question; b Not followed by a comma within a sentence; c In parentheses to express uncertainty; d Not used to label irony; e The Exclamation Point 99. EXERCISE ...
— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever
... states of society. If we examine in its broadest outline the literature which is contemporaneous with the general consolidation of capitalism we find that it bears stamped upon it the mark of interrogation. From Wilde to Mr. Wells is the age of the question mark. In almost every writer of this period we find the same tendency of thought: the endless questioning, the shattering of conventions, the repeal of ...
— Hilaire Belloc - The Man and His Work • C. Creighton Mandell
... III, paragraph 7. Full stop after "bugglary" was changed to a question mark in the sentence: ...
— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope
... little cowpuncher was gazing wistfully at the hitching-post. His face was twisted pathetically to a question mark. It was as though he thought he could conjure from the post the secret of Clay's disappearance. Where had he gone from here? And where was ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine
... author's consistent use of a lower-case letter following an exclamation point or a question mark inside ...
— Trail's End • George W. Ogden |
