This is the translation from one of the exercises. Would a sentence actually be punctuated as "Juan, ¿estás ocupado?" instead of "¿Juan, estás ocupado?"
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Juan, ¿estás ocupado?
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Re: Juan, ¿estás ocupado?
Yes, all the time.
One of the advantages of the up-side-down question mark appearing at the beginning of the question is that you can separate out just the part of the sentence that is actually a question.
Re: Juan, ¿estás ocupado?
¡Gracias por su ayuda! And when you do embed the upside-down question mark in the middle of the sentence, you don't capitalize the next word, right?
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Re: Juan, ¿estás ocupado?
GaryDRobson wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 5:01 am¡Gracias por su ayuda! And when you do embed the upside-down question mark in the middle of the sentence, you don't capitalize the next word, right?
No, you don't.
Re: Juan, ¿estás ocupado?
For completeness' sake, I would add that, while you can move the opening question mark to the middle of the sentence, the closing one always stays at the end. So placing the vocative at the end yields «¿Estás ocupado, Juan?». This is perhaps self-evident if you think about intonation in questions, but I thought I'd add it in case someone was having strange ideas...
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