where is the mistake in this sentence: "What is better than a good dinner"? Please, help me out.?

Question

The teacher says there is a mistake but I cant see it. I am not a native speaker. THanks a lot.

Answer 1

well, im not certain but two ideas that came to me are, good and bad are normally used to refer to active behavior,,,, so maybe an adjective like great,,,,,,, or fantastic would be better as in great dinner etc

i personally would of stated the question as "Is there anything better then a great dinner"? but that may not be what the teacher is referring to
ps: plus, as others said, you need the question mark before the " as in ,,,,,dinner?"

Answer 2

Looks okay, (the English teacher must not have noticed you did put the question mark at the end) . With this particular question, the question mark belongs inside the quotation marks: this is not necessarily always the case and depends on the structure of the sentence as to whether the question mark would go inside or outside of the quoted part in quotation marks for example:

"Look at that!" he exclaimed. "Did you see that?"
(the question asked is inside the quotes so the question mark is put inside the quotes, as well)

Did Mark Antony say, "Friends, Romans, countrymen"?
(the actual question being asked is outside of the quotation and so the question mark belongs outside of the quotes.

Here is a helpful link

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000104.htm

Lots of native English speakers get punctuation marks wrong.

Answer 3

I'm an English teacher, and the only thing that I see is that it should be a question, not a sentence.

Answer 4

if the quotations were a part of the sentence the only thnig wrong would be that u need a question mark in side the quotation otherwise if they're not than the question is supposed have a question mark.

Answer 5

I agree with the all the people that said the sentence should end in with a question mark.

Answer 6

First of all, it isn't a sentence. It is a question. Therefore, it should end with a question mark.
The question mark you included ( the first one) is part of your posted question and not (apparently) part of the phrase included in the homework problem.

As long as we are on the subject, your second sentence is a sentence, and should end with a period, not a period AND a question mark. :-p

Answer 7

The only thing I see wrong with it is that the ? is placed outside the close quote", it ought to be... dinner?" But other than that, it looks OK to me.

Answer 8

It may need a question mark at the end, but that's it

Answer 9

i think it needs a question mark, even though it may be a retorical question you should write it as a regular one

"What is better than a good dinner?"

Answer 10

The question mark should be inside the quotes.