{"id":72931,"date":"2019-11-29T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T06:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72931"},"modified":"2019-11-29T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T06:06:12","slug":"full-stop-question-mark-exclamation-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/full-stop-question-mark-exclamation-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Stop, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The punctuation mark full stop (.) is used to close sentences. A new sentence that follows a full stop has a capital letter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honesty is the best policy.<\/li>\n<li>Sweet are the uses of adversity.<\/li>\n<li>A friend in need is a friend indeed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Full stops are also used in writing abbreviations. This is becoming less common in British English.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are: oz. for ounce (s), Prof. for professor, i.e. for in other words and e.g. for for example.<\/p>\n<h3>Question marks<\/h3>\n<p>Question marks (?) are used to close direct questions. A new sentence that follows a question mark has a capital letter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are you doing?<\/li>\n<li>Did you get my letter?<\/li>\n<li>Why do we try to reach the stars?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that we do not use question marks after indirect questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He asked me if I had received his letter.<\/li>\n<li>I asked her what time it was.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Exclamation marks<\/h3>\n<p>The exclamation mark (!) is placed at the end of an utterance which is an exclamation or which merely expresses strong emotion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What a lovely painting it is! (exclamation)<\/li>\n<li>How beautifully she sings! (exclamation)<\/li>\n<li>You must leave at once! (strong emotion)<\/li>\n<li>I can\u2019t believe this! (strong emotion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The punctuation mark full stop (.) is used to close sentences. A new sentence that follows a full stop has a capital letter. Honesty is the best policy. Sweet are the uses of adversity.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1906,837,1905],"class_list":["post-72931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-exclamation-mark","tag-full-stop","tag-question-mark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72932,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72931\/revisions\/72932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}