Question: Help, cos I'm rubbish at grammar.

[Vagabond Heart]

Hi guys.

Here's the excuse: we moved house a lot when I was a kid, which meant also many, many schools. And I'd leave one before the rules of grammar were taught only to arrive at another where it'd already been handled. Ergo, I know shit.

Here's the question: So which is correct?
A. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner,' I object?
B. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner?' I object.

Asking for a friend, obviously.

 

[E G Logan]

B.
Question mark follows question, immediately after.

 

[Claire G]

Hi guys.

Here's the excuse: we moved house a lot when I was a kid, which meant also many, many schools. And I'd leave one before the rules of grammar were taught only to arrive at another where it'd already been handled. Ergo, I know shit.

Here's the question: So which is correct?
A. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner,' I object?
B. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner?' I object.

Asking for a friend, obviously.

Yes, B

 

[MattScho]

Hi guys.

Here's the excuse: we moved house a lot when I was a kid, which meant also many, many schools. And I'd leave one before the rules of grammar were taught only to arrive at another where it'd already been handled. Ergo, I know shit.

Here's the question: So which is correct?
A. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner,' I object?
B. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner?' I object.

Asking for a friend, obviously.

As noted, spanner? is correct, though you could have a spanner? I object? though it changes the meaning

 

[Peyton Stafford]

Hi guys.

Here's the excuse: we moved house a lot when I was a kid, which meant also many, many schools. And I'd leave one before the rules of grammar were taught only to arrive at another where it'd already been handled. Ergo, I know shit.

Here's the question: So which is correct?
A. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner,' I object?
B. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner?' I object.

Asking for a friend, obviously.

A means the speaker objects, but tentatively. Could be written as "How come you need...? I object"
B means the same. But the speaker is not tentative.

Sympathy about the multiple schools. My grade school years were in Southern California, so my parents did not have to relocate in order to expose me to multiple misguided educational theories.

 

[Hannah F]

B is correct, but 'How come . . . spanner?' is in itself an objection, so you don't need to clarify with I object. You'd be better off just saying I say.
'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the spanner?' I say. (You could add a facial expression if you want to increase the show of person objecting). 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the spanner?' I frown at him/I take one off his bench/whatever action beat suits your story.

 

[James Charles]

Hi guys.

Here's the excuse: we moved house a lot when I was a kid, which meant also many, many schools. And I'd leave one before the rules of grammar were taught only to arrive at another where it'd already been handled. Ergo, I know shit.

Here's the question: So which is correct?
A. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner,' I object?
B. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner?' I object.

Asking for a friend, obviously.

I think this has been answered but: B is correct.

 

[Adrian Bagley]

Just to add to all the unsolicited suggestions I'd personally go with, 'How come,' I object, 'you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner?'

 

[Eva Ulian]

What I don't feel comfortable with in that sentence is the word "object". You can't object to something with a question. Take a courtroom example- if an attorney objects to something, he is against it- period.
Protest, challenge, query or even the simple ask, I feel to be more suitable.

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Thank you everyone. I thought it was B, and that’s what I generally use, but have recently seen A and then got horribly confused. Xxx

 

[Pamela Jo]

Thank you everyone. I thought it was B, and that’s what I generally use, but have recently seen A and then got horribly confused. Xxx

Grammar is logical. But my writer brains goes blank on things my editor brain picks up. Just remember complete the thought then what punctuation does that thought need?

But Adrien is on to something. This is dialog. You being British and all you probably do yell at your husband in complete sentences. But maybe it moves faster if it's more:

"FFS darling" , my hand swept across a vast expanse of spanners, "how many are there? A Gazillion? You keep all these and I'm marching down to Oxfam and taking back all my shoes."

 

[Eva Ulian]

but have recently seen A

That should console you - there's someone even worse than you - there always is.

 

[Hannah F]

That should console you - there's someone even worse than you - there always is.

Don't listen, Bev. You're brill!!

 

[Trey]

Hi guys.

Here's the excuse: we moved house a lot when I was a kid, which meant also many, many schools. And I'd leave one before the rules of grammar were taught only to arrive at another where it'd already been handled. Ergo, I know shit.

Here's the question: So which is correct?
A. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner,' I object?
B. 'How come you get to keep a gazillion versions of the same spanner?' I object.

Asking for a friend, obviously.

B - but you know some Latin! Worth getting writing software to help with stuff like this (aside from here, of course).