I was wondering if you’d like to come to the cinema with me this evening? Is the use of a question mark correct?

I wonder if we need to use a question mark following “I wonder” for requesting something.

For example: I was wondering if you’d like to come to the cinema with me this evening?

Is using the question mark correct here?

Answer

Maybe, but I wouldn’t, since the question “I was wondering if you’d like to come to the cinema with me this evening” is indirect. You can give it the overt form of a question by using auxiliary inversion with rising intonation: “I was wondering would you like to come to the cinema with me this evening?”, and then the question mark is okay.

Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : Hadis Homamjou , Answer Author : Greg Lee

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