Expressing Dates in Spanish
As established in the Real Academia Española, Spanish-speaking countries use, generally, the ascending order when they write out dates, i.e. day, month, year, with no
As established in the Real Academia Española, Spanish-speaking countries use, generally, the ascending order when they write out dates, i.e. day, month, year, with no
I was thumbing through the dictionary of the Spanish Academy (RAE) the other day and I thought it would be useful to share the official
To review: English does not have an official governing body that dictates what is right or wrong. Instead, it is based on a set of
Demonstratives are used to point to another element that they depend on to achieve their full meaning. If they point backwards, it is known as
Grammar hounds, and I include myself in this list, are those who are so obsessed with proper presentation of a language that even the slightest
The period (full stop) is the punctuation mark that marks the grammatical and logical end of a sentence. The main difference comes from its greatest
In English, we use concision (many short words or phrases) as well as an economy of language (fewer words), the preference we demonstrate for the
This punctuation mark is, in Spanish, the equivalent to parentheses, though it does have one function that differs: marking off asides that are suggestive, ironic,
In English, I feel that I encounter parataxis more often than in the Romance languages (though I have no good evidence to back this up).
The principal function of quotation marks is to mark quotes and dialogues. In Spanish, there are two formulas for dialogues: dashes and quotation marks. The
The custom in English today of having expository clarity give precedence to short sentences that are separated by periods, whereas in Spanish the are considered
In English, unlike Spanish, uses the indefinite article before the generic predicate. The article plays its essential role, which is to singularize an object among
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