When to leave the difficult questions to the last?
When to leave the difficult questions to the last?
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Always leave the difficult questions to the last. This ensures that you would have answered most of the questions in the paper should you run out of time. It also gives you more time for the difficult questions, as you would need relatively less time for the easy ones. 6.
Is the word’please Check’a question or a request?
‘Please check …’ certainly isn’t a question. At Proofthatblog is ‘The biggest confusion will come in determining whether the thing you are asking is a direct question or a polite request. A polite request will not use a question mark but will use a period instead.
Can you please let me know if you have checked?
Could you please let me know if/whether you have checked … I would [greatly] appreciate it if you could let me know if/whether/when you have checked … Ooh. That’s a completely different sentence then, with a meaning none of us got. Please check my updated answer 🙂 – Alicja Z Mar 27 ’14 at 15:43
What’s the best way to ask an open ended question?
Open-ended questions take more effort to answer, so use these types of questions sparingly. Be as clear and specific as possible in how you frame the question. Give them as much context as you can to help make answering easier.
‘Please check …’ certainly isn’t a question. At Proofthatblog is ‘The biggest confusion will come in determining whether the thing you are asking is a direct question or a polite request. A polite request will not use a question mark but will use a period instead.
What does ” I’m not sure I understand your question ” mean?
1 “I’m not sure I understand your question”… Then please don’t answer it. Or just state one’s assumptions for the optimal case inferred and then take one’s best shot at a cogent answer. I interpret this opening statement as haughty pedantry. 2 “Please don’t do that”. (Since when did engineers become so moralistic and censurious?
Could you please let me know if/whether you have checked … I would [greatly] appreciate it if you could let me know if/whether/when you have checked … Ooh. That’s a completely different sentence then, with a meaning none of us got. Please check my updated answer 🙂 – Alicja Z Mar 27 ’14 at 15:43
When do you not use a question mark?
The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS 6.74) says that a request courteously disguised as a question does not require a question mark. As examples, it gives Will the audience please rise. and Would you kindly respond by March 1.