Proofreading Service - Pain in the English
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Proofreading Service - Pain in the English
Proofreading Service - Pain in the English

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24-Hour Proofreading Service—We proofread your Google Docs or Microsoft Word files. We hate grammatical errors with a passion. Learn More

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Does “Who knows” need a question mark?

  • December 16, 2010, 9:15pm

I feel that choosing punctuation would be a much better solution .

Does “Who knows” need a question mark?

  • December 14, 2010, 8:12pm

Robert,

How would you punctuate the phrase in prose? Some type of punctuation is necessary if the phrase appears in continuous text.

-DQ

Does “Who knows” need a question mark?

  • November 19, 2010, 3:08pm

Frank,
Everything you said makes me sad.
-DQ

Does “Who knows” need a question mark?

  • November 15, 2010, 9:54pm

Regarding the "God knows" response, in that case, God is being used as the specified subject of the sentence, implying that 'only God knows'. Therefore, it would not be the same as "Who knows", which is in fact a question, implying 'does anyone really know'.

AP style also prefers e-mail

Whom are you?

  • October 15, 2010, 4:40pm

@semiotek, super heros would

Past tense of “text”

  • September 22, 2010, 4:18pm

Can every letter be used as a silent letter?

  • September 21, 2010, 12:54pm

excuse me, ARE acquisitions from other languages

Can every letter be used as a silent letter?

  • September 21, 2010, 12:53pm

Not to be too picky, but the original poster did say the English language. Words such as bourgeois, rendez vous and even sioux are not acquisitions from other languages.