One more thing before we move into present indicative. Punctuation and capitalization are slightly different in Spanish than in English, so let's learn those technical things.
●There are no apostrophes in Spanish. Possession will be covered in the "possessive pronouns" lesson soon.
●Questions and exclamations are made with an upside-down version of the mark at the beginning and an English punctuation mark at the end. For example, Where is my mom? would be ¿Dónde está mi madre? and You are beautiful! would be ¡Tú eres bonito!
● Commas are similar to Spanish as in English, and if you make a comma error, it's likely that native speakers make it too.
●In Spanish, you capitalize:
1.) The first word of every sentence (Me gusta hablar en español.)
2.) Capitalize names of people, cities, countries, and places (Estados Unidos)
3.) Personal titles such as "señora" are not capitalized.
4.) In book titles, only the first word is capitalized. (La maldicción de relámpago)
5.) Newspapers, web pages, and articles use English capitalization.
6.) Holidays use English capitalization.
7.) Spanish does not capitalize days of the week, seasons, months of the year, languages, nationalities, religions, or the first word of geographical locations.
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