Put it where?

April 26, 2014 — Laura

What kind of a question is that on the Yahoo! front page?

put a ring on it fp

Put a ring on it? That’s a question? Actually, no, it isn’t. The entire headline is the question and the question mark belongs after the ending quotation mark.

Posted in Punctuation, Question Marks, Quotation Marks. Tags: , , , , , , , , . 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Put it where?”

  1. lectorconstans Says:
    April 27, 2014 at 7:47 pm

    One would think that out of politeness, they would not refer to the ring’s target as “it”.

    Reply

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