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Rule "Missing question mark"

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Description: Missing question mark
Message: Did you forget a question mark?
Category: Punctuation (ID: PUNCTUATION)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/types-of-sentences/#interrogative-sentence
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • Why do they do this to us every year...
    Correction suggestion: ...?, ?
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • What doesn't kills you, makes you stronger.
  • What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
  • Who does not love wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.
  • - Why don't we start with me saying...
  • Why don't you print it out and then let's go over the changes that need to be made...
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: QUESTION_MARK [3]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-28 22:33:06 +0200)