Saturday 25 April 2015

Anyone want to join my gang?


I'm joining a newly established Book Club next week.  What will it be like, I wonder?  (Do you put a question mark at the end of a rhetorical question?)

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    1. Well done, GB - I should have realised you'd know the answer.

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  2. I think you do put a question mark on because a question is a question, rhetorical or not! How do you decide which books to read? do you all have to go out and buy your own copies? I suppose you do.

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    1. This first meeting we are just talking about the book we are currently reading - whatever it may be. (Or, if they are like me, one of the books they are currently reading since I have about four on the go at any one time).
      I think we will then choose to read the same book for the next meeting but those are the sorts of things to be decided at the meeting. I hadn't thought about the expense but presumably, yes, we'll each have to buy a copy.

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  3. Have fun! I've never been in a book club, but I think they are far more widespread in the UK than in Germany anyway. If I lived in Ripon, I am quite sure I'd be part of the Civic Society as well as of some book club or other.
    When it comes to rhetorical questions, I always put a question mark at the end.

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  4. You might as well put a question mark there, because the answer is still unknown! Maybe especially because it is rhetorical, it remains unanswered.

    Either way, enjoy the club!

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  5. Do tell us when you know more! :) What will you be reading?

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    1. As noted above, we will select our own book for the first meeting and I'll let you know what happens after that. I shall probably talk about the Robyn Young Brethren Trilogy.

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  6. Yes, please. I'd love to join your gang!

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  7. I wish I knew the answer to your grammatical question. I find so many instances of these kind of grammatical unknowns, i get quite frustrated with myself. As an English teacher, aren't I supposed to know the answers to these? I don't think I was ever taught this kind of thing..

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  8. Enjoy your new book club! I've never joined one...Maybe one day when I retire. To answer your question...Ummm...yes?

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  9. A Book Club sounds like fun. I couldn't do that, like Yaya above, maybe if I ever get to retire.
    I don't have to think about the question mark, I can see your brother's comment! HA!

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  10. ooooo a book club, that sounds exciting. I read every day, well, night really, just before I go byebyes.

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  11. It seems to me that you should not use a question mark. You should use a period because the sentence is a statement. i.e. "I wonder what it will be like." "What will it be like, I wonder." is a straight-forward statement of your feelings.

    Leslie, the Canadian, eh
    btw, I don't seem to have access to any of the profile options offered.

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