Question

Choose the correct form: a) She walked up to him and said what’s your name? b) She walked up to him and said, “What’s your name?” c) She walked up to him and said, ‘what’s your name’?

Answer 1

The correct answer is Option b.

The correct answer is She walked up to him and said, “What’s your name?”

Explanation:

In the first sentence, the quotation marks surrounding the question to indicate the exact way it was asked are missing. So, this answer is incorrect.

In the third question, the ? punctuation mark is part of the sentence that is asked as a question. So, it should be inside quotation marks. So, this answer is incorrect.

Answer 2

"According to the punctuation rules,

1. If only the quoted part of a "sentence is a question", then the "question mark" should be placed within the "quotation marks".
2. If the sentence as a whole is a question sentence, then the question mark should be placed outside the quotation, meaning it's an interrogative sentence.

For example,

• She went to him and said, “Do you have a pen?”
• How can you define the poem with the title, “What's your name”?"