My Pet Peeve in Grammar

by Jackie King
I’m not sure when writers started using double punctuation at the end of a sentence, but anytime I read this in any story, I want to throw that book across the room. This weird, double-punctuation always consists of a question mark plus an explanation point at the end of a sentence. For example:
“Does that man have a gun?!”
Rather than:
“Does that man have a gun?”
Let’s suppose the scene had already been set up with our protagonist observing a man dressed in camo. The guy is trying...