Why not periods? Why doesn’t every sentence in Spanish that isn’t a question or exclamation start with a period floating in the sky?
Why not periods? Why doesn’t every sentence in Spanish that isn’t a question or exclamation start with a period floating in the sky?
English manages the exact same thing without the leading punctuation.
English changes the order of the words of the sentence. Spanish uses punctuation marks. It’s just differences in languages. Personally I appreciate them since it helps me read Spanish quicker with fewer parsing errors.
“How would I find out?”
Yes, English uses word order to define grammar in many more sentences than Spanish, but not exclusively.
Dunno for others but for me this question sounds rhetorical, due to the lack of inversion. By default you expect questions in English to start with an optional interrogative pronoun, plus a [typically auxiliary] verb - “can I tell you?”, “do you know him?”, “how do you know this?” et cetera.
That’s not a direct comparison.
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English, you mean that notoriously easy to parse and learn language that has rules so obscure that native speakers don’t even realize they’re adhering to them? Tell that to my Irish old small lovely mother.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order