The Question Mark (?)

Description : The story starts in a restaurant where the punctuation marks go to meet the children to teach them about their importance and how they are used. As they get acquainted, the question mark comes out of the paper to tell the children what will happen if it did not exist. So, the children learn about the question mark and how it is crucial for scientific discoveries and for the advancement of knowledge.

SGD : Goal 4: Quality Education,

Keywords : Children literature, the importance of the question mark, the Quran, the full stop, the exclamation mark, questionsm answers, direct and indirect questions, infinative and negative, who, which, when, where, how, how much, whether, how to say yes to a negative sentence.

Type : An educational story

Relations : It is one of eight stories in the collection Our Beautiful Language: The Punctuation Mark

Coverage : The story presents the importance of using the question mark

Language and Age : In Arabic for age 11-12

Publishing Rights : The writer and Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publisher and Place : Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publication Date : 2002

E-Format : 15 pages in Arabic