Thematic Vocabulary
Basic Sentence Structure
You can't have a complete sentence without punctuation, and, luckily, punctuation rules are very similar in both Spanish and English. On the basic level, a period is used at the end of a sentence, and a comma is used for the same reasons you would use a comma in English. However, there are some differences between Spanish and English
Question marks
One unusual punctuation mark is the use of an upside down question mark (¿) preceding a Spanish question. The question is followed by the same question mark (?) you use in English. The upside down question mark is used because Spanish questions often look exactly like sentences, so the upside down question mark is necessary to identify that what follows is a question.
Exclamation point
In similar fashion to the question mark, the emphasis indicated by an exclamation point at the end of the sentence is reinforced by an upside down exclamation point (¡) at the beginning of the sentence. That way the reader knows to say the sentence with emotion before the sentence is over.
Punctuation and numbers
There is a rather confusing aspect of punctuation that only occurs with numbers. The Spanish use a comma to indicate a decimal point and a period where we use a comma in numbers. For example:
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