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This is the tweet I want to tweet:

All people repeat after me - I pledge I will not ask every co-worker I run into on Monday, 'how was your weekend'.

Should there be a question mark after "weekend"? Are there any other grammatical problems with this tweet?

Dog Lover
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Yes, when you quote a question, you should put a question mark inside the quotation marks. Thus, there should be a question mark after weekend:

I pledge I will not ask every co-worker I run into on Monday, 'How was your weekend?'.

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  • As Reg Dwight has said, '[W]e write stuff in comments that is too obvious to qualify for an answer. [This] is not really a topic for a site for linguists and etymologists, and we don't want it to become a topic.' (Though the question has probably been asked before in the early years of ELU.) It's also general reference. – Edwin Ashworth Aug 30 '15 at 21:58
  • +1 However, I would consider also capitalising the "H" in "how". – Dog Lover Aug 30 '15 at 22:42
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    The advice given in this answer does not reflect the standard approach in U.S. publishing to punctuating a sentence that ends with a quotation containing embedded end punctuation. In the many U.S. publishing houses that I have copyedited for, the standard approach is to omit the final period (end point) so that the sentence would end with weekend?' Normal U.S. punctuation style would also use double quotation marks instead of single ones for the quotation itself. See Old Pro's answer in the link contained in my comment beneath the OP's question. – Sven Yargs Aug 31 '15 at 00:06