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Let's say I have a statement like this:

I just saw you come online, and I wanted to see how your day was going.

Now, am I right to use the . at the end of that sentence? I've written it like this in the past because I thought the . was wrong:

I just saw you come online, and I wanted to see how your day was going; how's it going?

Is the latter more appropriate? I mean at least it asks the question.

Mike Perrenoud
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Actually, the more correct choice of punctuation is the former.

When you are asking an indirect question, you end a sentence with a period. It is really a declarative sentence that reports a question, not a question itself.

Ted Broda
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