Punctuation in Spanish is a little bit different to English.
Questions in Spanish
Questions in Spanish don鈥檛 just need a question mark at the end, they also need one at the beginning of the sentence.
The question mark at the beginning of the sentence must be upside down but the one at the end is just an ordinary question mark.
Here are some examples:
Sorry, something went wrongCheck your connection, refresh the page and try again. - What is your name?
Sorry, something went wrongCheck your connection, refresh the page and try again. - How old are you?
Sorry, something went wrongCheck your connection, refresh the page and try again. - How are you?
Accents in questions
Another thing to remember about questions is that there is an accent on the question word, such as 'who', 'what' and 'where', eg:
Sorry, something went wrongCheck your connection, refresh the page and try again. - What is your name?
Exclamations in Spanish
Any exclamation sentence in Spanish needs an upside down exclamation mark at the beginning and a normal exclamation mark at the end.
Here are some examples:
Sorry, something went wrongCheck your connection, refresh the page and try again. - Hello!
Sorry, something went wrongCheck your connection, refresh the page and try again. - I鈥檓 hungry!
Sorry, something went wrongCheck your connection, refresh the page and try again. - I鈥檓 fantastic!
Did you know?
Upside down question marks are a way of saying 'question coming up', because the word order for a question and a non-question are the same.
For example:
Sorry, something went wrongCheck your connection, refresh the page and try again. - You are eight years old
Sorry, something went wrongCheck your connection, refresh the page and try again. - Are you eight years old?
They also tell the speaker to change their intonation - this means that their voice should go up at the end of the question.
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