Spanish · Chapter 50 · Lesson 14 · Grammar primer
Punctuation and capitalisation
Where Spanish differs from English: the mandatory opening ¿ and ¡ (and where they go), lowercase days, months, languages and nationalities (lunes, espanol), the decimal comma, and the colon after Estimada senora:
The short version
The opening mark hugs the question
The upside-down opening mark is compulsory, and it starts where the question starts, which is not always the first word of the sentence. Anything before it stays outside. It exists because Spanish word order gives no early warning: vienes mañana and the question version differ only in the marks and the tone.
Si vienes, ¿me avisas?
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