A few days ago
Anonymous

Quick grammer question….?

In the sentence…

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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A few days ago
johnnydiva

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It depends in which language you are speaking.

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.

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A few days ago
katluver005
I can speak two different languages, Spanish and English.

you need to write 2 out

comma after languages, because you are stating what the languages are

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A few days ago
peaceablefruit206
Yes, the “S” in Spanish and the “E” in English are supposed to be capitalized since they are the names of languages.

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.

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A few days ago
Anonymous
Hi, thanks for asking.

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.

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A few days ago
pinkpaw_cutie
upper case i think. what you have is a run-on sentence. i know this because we are just learning this πŸ™‚

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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A few days ago
Lisa B
They should both be capitalized. The names of languages are proper nouns.
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A few days ago
britt_0990
Both should be capitalized, along with the name of any other language.

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Hope I helped you out!

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4 years ago
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Your sentence is grammatically appropriate. yet, if I would desire to show out a mistake — your spelling of “grammar” isn’t. The sentence is acceptable as this is; even nevertheless that’s context on your tale would be certain whether you employ the be conscious “decide on” or “chosen”. in case you initiate your write-up with this sentence, you will would desire to apply the verb style “decide on”; even nevertheless, if that’s like your last line, on the top of your write-up, then your sentence is authentic.
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A few days ago
Khanh C
uppercase
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A few days ago
girlie [β™₯]
uppercase πŸ™‚
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