Because you've got your book upside down. It's possible you've been confused by an inverted question mark "¿" at the beginning of a question.
HTH
Sam "SammyTheSnae" Penny
Upside down in Spanish is "al revés" (to the reverse).
Why not? It seems a very good way of indicating in advance that the sentence is interrogative.
(upside down question mark) Que tal?
(Upside down !) Vaminos! (Upside down !) Rapidemente!
you put an upside down question mark in the beginning and then a regular question mark at the end. Example: ¿Donde esta? The way to do a updside down question mark when typing is: SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+?
"¿Por qué eres tan mala conmigo?" (if you ask to a woman) "¿Por qué eres tan malo conmigo?" (if you ask to a man)
What is his name?=Cómo se llama él? (There should be an upside-down question mark in the front but I can't find it on this computer.) You don't need the "él" if it's obvious who you mean.
"Did" in Spanish is an upside down question mark. There is no "did" word in Spanish. In fact, "do" and others also are upside down question marks.
A sentence in Spanish which ends in an exclamation point or question mark will have an upside-down one at the beginning, too. Hola, ¿como te llamas?
"As I played back the video, I saw that I had been holding my camera upside down." "The latest designer in Paris has turned the fashion world upside down with his brilliance." "In Spanish, an upside-down question mark precedes each interrogative sentence or quote."
To make it clear from the start that you are asking a question. In English, the structure of the sentence tells you at once whether the sentence is a statement or a question. "He is a good student". "Is he a good student?" In Spanish it is not so obvious and you need ¿ at the beginning of your question and ? at the end.
that's a Spanish question mark
Commonly used in the Spanish language, the use of the upside down question mark (or even an upside down exclamation mark) are used in questioning sentences.
an upside down question mark = ALT + 168
I use a small case "i" as an upside-down exclamation point at the start of a sentence written in the Spanish language, like so: "iQue bonita!"
(upside down question mark) Que tal?
The upside down question mark is not a punctuation mark used in the English language. Rather, it is used in Spanish in front of a question, with a regular question mark placed at the end.
In Spanish, an upside-down exclamation mark (ยก) at the beginning of a sentence is used to indicate an exclamatory sentence. The regular exclamation mark (!) at the end is used in the same way as in English, to indicate the end of the exclamation. This is to help the reader anticipate the tone and emphasis of the sentence from the start.
Yo tambien.(accent going up over the "e".) Means: I also/too. (There is no word for "do" in Spanish. If it is a question, it is represented in an upside down question mark.)