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Something the pendants on Gransnet will love!!!!

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ginny Mon 07-Mar-16 08:31:21

What exactly is an explanation mark ?

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Anya Mon 07-Mar-16 08:27:29

What a palaver!

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grumppa Mon 07-Mar-16 08:21:32

Utter garbage. Apart from anything else, surely a sentence containing a verb and starting with What would normally end with a question mark? The only exception that springs to mind is "What a piece of work is a man!", which is followed, if memory serves me right, by a phrase ending in an exclamation mark. But Shakespeare was just a grammar school boy.

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NanaandGrampy Mon 07-Mar-16 08:16:10

Thats me in trouble then grin

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whitewave Mon 07-Mar-16 08:11:02

See that this idiot government has pontificated about the explanation mark!

Children as young as 7 will be marked down for using out of context.

So the latest idiot rules are that it should only be used with complete/proper sentences in which there is a verb and begins with "what" or "who".

The dead hand of Gove seems present!

Takes no account of modern use and context.

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