Do exclamation marks go before or after a question mark?

Answer 1

If the exclamation mark is part of the quote then before, otherwise after. The following sentences contain examples:

• A sudden cry came from the back of the house: "Help! Help!"
• He claimed that the booze in his drawer was "medicine"!

Answer 2

Exclamation marks and question marks can be used in combination, with the order depending on the emphasis of the sentence. If the sentence conveys surprise or excitement through the question, the exclamation mark would come after the question mark (e.g., "You did what?!"), while if the sentence is more of an exclamation that also happens to be a question, the exclamation mark would come before the question mark (e.g., "How could you do that!").

Answer 3

Typically the question mark must come first when they are informally paired

(e.g. "Can that be right?!") because it must be a question to use a question mark. There is an odd amalgam called an "interrobang" that never caught on in English: ‽

* In Chess notation, the order of the punctuation is subjective, meaning either that what seems a great move has dubious consequences (!?) or that a bad move in a given situation can lead to a winning line (?!).

Answer 4

An exclamation mark is written with the symbol !. An exclamation mark is used at the end of a sentence to denote surprise or shock, and when writing speech it could denote somebody shouting. A question mark is written with the symbol ?. This symbol is used at the end of a sentence which is a question.

Answer 5

If you are asking a question, you need a question mark. If you are making an exclamation, you need an exclamation point.

"Is this a question?"

"Of course it is!"

Answer 6

They are commonly placed after the question mark.

Answer 7

Quotation marks go after the question mark in a sentence. She said, "Do you have to go now?"

Answer 8

If you're using an interrobang then the question mark generally comes first.

Answer 9

Yes it does.