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Question mark (?)

A question mark is used to indicate the end of a question:

Have you seen the film yet?
 
Note that you don’t use a question mark at the end of a question in reported speech:
 
He asked if I had seen the film yet.
 
A question mark can also be used in brackets to show that the writer is unconvinced by a statement:
 
I’m about to get started on the new project, which is apparently quite straightforward (?).

 

 
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