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Episode: 0190 – Marking Up For… Questions
Description: 0190 – Marking Up For… Questions Marking up for… questionsDo you know how question marks are used?Of course, you do! But I wrote that sentence to illustrate how, when you read it aloud or in your mind, your tone of voice rose when you spotted that ‘?’ at the end. In English intonation, sentences usually rise in the middle, and end on a downward note. Sometimes called ‘uppers and downers’, they are signposts to the listener, showing the way the sentence and the thought is progressing. When there’s a question, though...