If you end a question with a proper noun that requires quotation marks, i.e. a play's name, do you still put the question mark (?) inside the quotation marks?  EXAMPLE: Did you see "South Pacific"? -or- Did you see "South Pacific?"
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Possible Duplicate:          If I'm quoting something someone said and the quote does not have a question mark, but I want to end the sentence with a question mark, would it be     Are you sure she said "Spicy?"   or       Are you sure she said "Spicy"?
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Who said "I am hungry?"   The quotation is not a question, but do I put "my" question mark there anyway?    This is related to, but not the same as
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May I use a question mark in the middle of a sentence? Examples:  Would you like the drapes to be white? or perhaps something off-white? Would you like the logo to be centered? at the bottom? left off entirely?
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In , I used quotes to demark specific terms, but after I posted the question, I wondered if I'm doing it right.  Usually, when quoting something a person says, the quotation mark goes after the comma or period, like so:     "This is my opinion," she said.   However, I sometimes use quotes not to represent something said by anyone, but instead for delineating a set term or phrase to make it clear that those words go together and none of them should be mistaken for a part of the rest of the sentence. Like this:     Should I say "stand up", "standup", or "stand-up"?   This looks weird to me:     Should I say "stand up," "standup," or "stand-up"?   ... but maybe I'm wrong about the rules.  Is it correct to use quotes in this way? And if so, are the quotes positioned correctly relative to the other punctuation marks?  Are there other alternatives for delineating terms without the use of quotes?
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was originally titled     Parsing irregular prototypes? Need an advice?   Because I'm hilariously funny, I commented: "No, I don't need any advice. Cheers, though"  But as it turns out, the OP had in fact entered:     Parsing irregular prototypes? Need an advice!   I confirmed via my own edit attempts that the trailing exclamation mark is converted into a question mark automatically on post submissions.  Now, OK, the title is not great. But this seems like a broken "feature" to me; what percentage of poor question titles with a trailing exclamation mark are fixed (rather than made more broken) by rewriting that punctuation as a question mark?  I vote we kill this feature.
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Is this sentence a question or a statement (or other). It ends with a question, so I used a question mark. (Just ignore the tech jargon.)     I get that this should show me the PID of the SIGTERMing process and I successfully   compiled it, but how do I use it?   Edit: Another question, should it be written as (which is correct and which is clearer?)     I get that this should show me the PID of the SIGTERMing process and successfully   compiled it, but how do I use it?
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Seems strange (and not in a good way) to me that when I click "Questions" and very few (about 1 in 8) of the titles end in question marks. So I'm curious to get some opinions:  Is there some simple change to the site that would encourage actually asking a question in the title?  Is this a worthwhile aim?
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I'm proofing a story, and at one point, as it is written at the moment, one the characters exclaims:     Prepare to die you fool!   Should there be comma after "die"?
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If you have two questions, one embedded in the other, should there be a single, final question mark covering both the main question and the nested one, or one for each?   Here is an example:     A) Does anyone know the answer (or can anyone explain?) if there should be one or two question marks in this sentence?   Here is another example just to clarify:     B) Does anyone know the answer (or does anyone not know?)?    I am mainly concerned with the embedded question coming at the end of sentence like this: ...(...?)?   That looks really odd to me. It doesn't seem right; however, I feel that it looks fine if I have the nested question in the middle of the sentence, i.e. of the form:     C) Does anyone know the answer (or does anyone not know?) to this question?   The punctuation in C looks correct to me, if I take the first question mark out then it looks looks wrong, but it seems that B and C are exactly, but for the position of the parentheses, the equivalent of each other.  P.S. One last point, are single and double quotation marks considered to be parentheses?
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I sometimes see square brackets used while quoting.  My assumption is that they are replacing a pronoun with what the object of the pronoun, but I never know for sure because I don't usually get to see what the original quote looks like before the modification.  What are these called and what are the rules of use?
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If I want to mention the word "furlong", for example, should I use furlong, "furlong", or 'furlong'? Also, am I correct in putting the punctuation outside the quotes?
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When you want to add a tag question to &quot;There is nobody in the garden.&quot; would it be &quot;are they&quot;? I just have read before that in tag questions we use (they) when the question include everybody/nobody etc.
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While writing a proposal at work today I needed to mention a list of things and within that list were multi-part items. It seems like replacing the comma with a semi-colon in this situation would make the sentence easier to understand, but is it correct usage?  With standard punctuation this could get confusing:       Some of my favorite things to do are   camping, playing football and   baseball, watching Laurel and Hardy   Movies, and traveling.   Proposed alternative. Is this acceptable usage?       Some of my favorite things to do are   camping; playing football and   baseball; watching Laurel and Hardy   Movies; and traveling.
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Sometimes you open a lengthy question, read through it and then discover "Closed as ..." at the bottom (sometimes only after scrolling) - oops, not something you can answer. Wouldn't it make more sense to display that message before the actual question? Or maybe even in both locations? That's really important information.  Edit: Looks like my concern would be solved by , thanks to Tim Stone for pointing that out.
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Possible Duplicate:          I'm having some trouble with this.  Usually, I would quote with doubles, and then singles within.  But this is becoming a bit confusing and ugly too, when working with some translated literature in which it is very, very common for someone to quote someone, who then quotes another, and the chain goes on.  Would I retain the principle of using double quotes initially when I quote the passage, and then keep using singles in the embeds/nests?  Edit:  Thought I'd add, it looks fine and dandy until the initial quoter ends his discourse on the clause of the one he is quoting!  I end up with ' ' " and all sorts at the end!
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Adding a question mark to the end of a "How to" or "Where to" sentence appears to be quite common. Here are two examples from this very site:  How to punctuate a list of questions? ()  Where to put the periods when using a parenthetical sentence? ()  In my mind, the question mark doesn't belong at all, and it bothers me.  Am I being unreasonable? Is this practice defensible?
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I thought that the quotation mark (") was simply a type of grouping marker but I'm debugging some NHibernate code and notice that while  SELECT * FROM site WHERE site_id = 3;   Works fine  SELECT * FROM "site" WHERE site_id = 3;   fails with a table or view does not exist error.  What gives?