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Note: The URL in your text has changed. The correct URL is http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/question.htm. The Guide to Grammar and Writing from Capital Community College covers all aspects of question mark use, including tag questions, indirect questions, rhetorical questions, and multiple short questions. It's especially helpful for analyzing unusual constructions involving what looks like a question but is actually something else. For example, the statement, "Would everyone in the room who hasn't received an ID card please move to the front of the line," has the form of a question but the force of a request. Thus, it should not be punctuated with a question mark. You'll have fun especially learning about the interrobang, a recently invented punctuation mark that serves to mark sentences that are somewhere between a question and an exclamation, as in "You did what?!" The mark itself is a combination question mark and exclamation point. To learn more about this strange creature, scroll down to the bottom of the site and click on that odd mark to the right:
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