which is right:

If you have questions - how long have you studied? Can I work for you? How long are you here for? - please ask them at the end

or


If you have questions - how long have you studied? can I work for you? how long are you here for? - please ask them at the end

or


If you have questions - how long have you studied, can I work for you, how long are you here for? - please ask them at the end

ie the questions in between the hypens, should i use question marks, and if so are they followed by capitals in this set up??

Cheers

No idea. How about:

If you have any questions, such as:
How long have you studied?
Can I work for you?
How long are you here for?
- please ask them at the end.

Could you write that continuously, instead of listing? ie



If you have any questions, such as: How long have you studied? Can I work for you? How long are you here for?
- please ask them at the end.



Do capitals come after a : ???? Gawd, i'm confused now!

Hi Casey,

I'd go for the single question mark as it allows the sentence to flow and retain it's colloquial structure. But that's not grammatical accuracy on my part - just personal taste. Don't know what the punctuation should be on this one. It's interesting.



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Duh.its not it's colloquial structure. Written nearly 3k words today before boys woke up and after they went to bed so have fudge for brains right now.

Thanks, Susannah.

Don't you just hate it when there isn't a rule?!

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There probably is, but i can't face thumbing through my New Hart's...

Caps after a ?, virtually always.

I'm not sure about running them all together with a ? only at the end, though I see why you might. They are very definitely separate sentences, in grammatical terms, and shouldn't be spliced with a comma.

I'd be quite tempted to re-cast the sentence, I must admit. AS you have it, it's the kind of thing which can be said aloud quite naturally, but is very difficult to get right, and natural, and easy to read, on paper.

Emma

Hmm, thanks.

I hate hyphens. They are my pet hate. Keep meaning to blog about them...

Aww, hyphens are my friends!

I think I'd go for brackets here, though:

If you have questions (How long have you studied? Can I work for you? How long are you here for?), please ask them at the end.

I might be tempted to insert 'eg' after the opening bracket, too.

Casey, I was vaguely assuming it was dialogue, but if not, I'd be seriously tempted to recast it:

Do you have questions? How long I've studied.... Please save them to the end, and I'll be happy to answer.

If you have questions, please save them for the end, and I'll be happy to talk about how long I've studied, whether I'm taking on staff, or how long I'm here for, or anything else you'd like to ask.

Emma

Thanks, guys.