I'm writing a sentence –
If you have a question on 'How to make french fries?', here is the answer.
MS Word shows an error because of those three tiny creatures – a question mark, a closing inverted comma, and a comma itself.
?',
Now, I wonder what to omit?
Question mark is required because it is a question. I must close the quote, so apostrophe sign is also required. A comma is also required because the sentence pauses there.
How to write it correctly?
Best Answer
I think it largely depends on style and manual guide you or your editor use. I don't think "how to make French fries" is necessarily a question that requires a question mark. The interrogative or relative adverb "how" could head a noun phrase which is the complement (object) of the preposition "on". Now, if we agree that the how phrase is not a question, we can punctuate the sentence as follows:
or
In the first example, the quotation marks are used to emphasize the details of the question. I don't think there is a specific rule on which quotation mark to use.