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In reply to the discussion: That's between you and I [View all]Backseat Driver
(4,401 posts)19. Question everything, LOL!
Here's the rules on how to use question marks; be sure to also view the link at the very end regarding terminal punctuation. I believe you used the question mark appropriately in your post because "me" is italicized as the specific word to be acted upon as the suggested action of the whole sentence.
https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/question-mark.html
BTW, there are rules about the how and when to use the idiomatic "how about" as well.
https://www.espressoenglish.net/difference-between-how-about-and-what-about/
Just between you and me, lol, just because you hear it more and more often does not magically turn using I into proper usage in that instance.
Here's a question for You, the All Powerful I." Are you part of the selfish "ME" generation that wants to abandon punctuation and grammar rules as a separatist, elite power play? Me bows to your infinite superiority in case you name me as a clandestine member of the grammar police.
I'm really just suggesting resources to back up correct usage of the question mark and asking other questions as a friend because I was once told not to use "I seen" because it was bad grammar. That friend said I'd forever be marked as uneducated. Forever after that scolding, I winced whenever I heard it used by others, among many other tabboo ways to speak; hence, my bias grows stronger about people in the same way suggested by that friend and yet most feel it rude to point out others' faults directly to their face, so I digress about whether or not you've sinned by mere suggestion of eliminating "me" from the English language, LOL! Actually, I think I'd figure out your meaning with whichever proper noun or pronoun you choose to converse or put to paper. There are far more important issues that need to be resolved where two or three gather together.
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The American rule is that the question mark goes inside the quotation marks
Sanity Claws
Jul 2020
#5
The problem is, English is an organic language and writing styles vary by which one used.
TheBlackAdder
Jul 2020
#32
It depends. The mark goes after the question, whatever the question is...
TreasonousBastard
Jul 2020
#6
Ah, yes-- we no longer teach students sentence diagramming, so they have no idea about...
TreasonousBastard
Jul 2020
#10
At this point I'm wondering why "I" and "me" ever became separate words in the first place.
Goodheart
Jul 2020
#21
i've had to let go of the "begs the question" vs. "raises the question" irritation
0rganism
Jul 2020
#27