Education Where would the question mark go.....

......in this sentence?

"Is this a Steam game as I can get it here for £21.99 which is far better than the £34.99 Steam want?"

I make no excuses for my grammar I left school when I was fifteen so have no formal qualifications. I am a reasonably intelligent guy but that has come from being a prolific reader most of my life and an inquiring mind, but my grammar does let me down. Most Of the time I could not care less but occasionally my inquisitive mind questions something that I have written that does not look right but I do not know how to correct it.

 

I'm sure it needs a comma in it somewhere...I think.

I've always come across these type of sentences and tend to just type it out how you have done...

 

Split it into two sentences?

"Is this a Steam game? I can get it here for £21.99; which is far better than the £34.99 Steam want."

 

If you were to split it into two sentences, I wouldn't put a question mark at the end of the 2nd, since it's not really a question, but a statement.

 

If you split it like Tangster has, the second sentence is not an interrogative.

 

Whoops. Copy-pasted the original sentence and forgot about that. Nice catch, edited.

 

Yes I though that was probably the correct way to write it.

Cheers guys, now that I have taken the first step I may well come back to ask another grammar question. As they say "Your never to old to learn."

Thanks again.

 

FTFY.

So what's the third question?

 

I'm a total grammar pedant. I like this thread a lot.

KRONOS - was that 'your', not 'you're' meant ironically?

 

Oops. I would like to say yes but that would be a total lie. LOL.

 

Shame you only fixed half of it

"You're never too old to learn."

 

I'm afraid this is grammar being discussed, not spelling. BOOM!

 

I wasn't bad at English but Maths....it actually gives me a headache.

 

Well. Two schools of thought there. Grammar, on the basis that the wrong word had been used. Also, it could be spelling (or a simple typo) on the basis of a missing 'o'.

Either way, it's comedy that it wasn't fixed...

 

If you really want a grammar workout then give this a try

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22512744

I got 8/10 after some good head scratching...

Edit: And I was pleased with that, what with being a Maths teacher and all - I deal in numbers, not words!

 

There is an unwritten rule in grammar, and that is to formulate your writing so that it communicates the most information in the simplest and least confusing way possible. With that aim in mind, I agree that Tangster's solution is the correct one. However, in the second sentence I would remove the semicolon and replace it with a comma. The phrase 'which is far better than the £34.99 Steam want' is not an independent clause.

 

Agreed.

Also agreed on the BBC grammar test. It's a goodie!

 

Oooh, I like that test! 9/10! Phew! I'd have been worried if it was lower than say 7 or 8, as I'm being published this month for the first time, haha.

 

Needless to say I am too embarrassed to mention my score.LOL.

 

I managed 10/10

However, I admit one was a blind guess.