Dear teacher,
If one of the clauses of a compound sentence is a question, what punctuation mark should we use, e.g. something like:
Could you please complete this today and I will then send it out tomorrow.
Or we simply should not construct a sentence this way?
Thanks.
Punctuation mark of a compound sentence
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Re: Punctuation mark of a compound sentence
Not really grammar but...
Yes, you should indeed avoid combining such incompatible sentence-types (at least for formal/careful use)!
Yes, you should indeed avoid combining such incompatible sentence-types (at least for formal/careful use)!