Quick grammer question….?
I can speak 2 different languages spanish and english.
Is the “s” in spanish and the “e” in english supposed to be capital or lowercase?
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In English, we always capitalize proper nouns; and we consider names of languages to be proper nouns [it’s something influenced by our German-speaking heritage: German capitalizes every noun]. Usuing your example above: I can speak 2 different languages — Spanish and English.
HOWEVER …. In Spanish, you wouldn’t capitalize the names of a language because Spanish-speakers don’t consider them proper nouns!!! For example [again translated from your sentence above]: “Puedo hablar en dos lenguas differentes — espanol e ingles.”
Spanish uses capitalization less often then English does.
you need to write 2 out
comma after languages, because you are stating what the languages are
Also, you need a colon after “languages” to show that you want the reader to pause a bit, and that a list is to follow, which would be “spanish and english.”
Everything else is fine.
Usually, names of languages are capitalized, because they’re proper nouns. So “spanish” and “english” should be capitalized.
In your example sentence, you should put a comma ( , ) or a colon ( : ) before the word “Spanish”.
Also, “grammer” is spelled with an “a”, not an “e”.
May God bless you.
a sentence is one complete thought or idea.
a run-on is more then one idea.
the proper way to say the sentence is like this…
I can speak two different languages. Spanish and English.
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Hope I helped you out!
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