Common Marks of Punctuation
English |
Punctuation Mark |
Spanish |
apostrophe | ' | apóstrofo |
asterisk | * | asterisco |
braces | { } | corchetes |
brackets | [ ] | paréntesis cuadrados (angulares) |
colon | : | dos puntos |
comma | , | coma |
dash | ¾ | raya |
diaeresis (umlaut) | ¨ | diéresis (or crema) |
¡ | principio de exclamación | |
exclamation point | ! | fin de exclamación |
hyphen | - | guión |
parentheses | ( ) | paréntesis |
period | . | punto |
¿ | principio de interrogación | |
question mark | ? | fin de interrogación |
quotation marks | " " | comillas |
semicolon | ; | punto y coma |
suspension points (ellipses) | ... | puntos suspensivos |
The inverted question mark ¿ (principio de interrogación) must always appear in a sentence that asks a question. However, it does not always appear at the beginning of the sentence. It should be placed at the point in the sentence where the question begins.
Si lo hubieras sabido, ¿habrías firmado el documento?
If you had known, would you have signed the document?
In this sentence the clause " would you have signed the document", contains the question so the inverted question mark ¿, appears here.