Question Mark Before Or After Quotes

If the question mark or exclamation point is part of your quotation, it stays inside; Here the question is outside the quote. Three questions on duncan's (1993) survey were when did you stop smoking?

If you are quoting more than four lines (not sentences), you need to set the quote off from the text. But if the question mark or exclamation point are not part of the quotation, they go outside the closing quotation mark. Here the question is outside the quote.

Question marks or exclamation points in quotations if a questionor exclamationis quoted directly,the quotation contains the question mark or exclamation point.

She looked at me and asked, “what is your name?” Alberta asked, will you still be my friend? the question will. In the uk, the tendency is to place them outside, unless they appear in the original quotation, in which case they go inside. When a question mark comes after the final quotation mark, the whole sentence becomes interrogative.