Why do you always have to put an upside down question mark when you ask a question?

Question

Why do you always have to put an upside down question mark when you ask a question? For example. ¿How many tennis shoes are there?. I think it is very creative but i want to know why is it needed? My spanish teacher told me that it's just the spanish rule im curious about that i just need an correct answer so i can understand better. Thank you!

Answer 1

A better question would be why we don't use two question marks in English. If you've ever done much public reading, it can be very embarrassing if you don't realize a sentence is a question until the end, because you would have said it differently.

Spanish does the logical thing by alerting us ahead of time that this is a question.

but usually in english we say "do you" or something to let people no it is a question - superhombreman, Dec 9, 2009

Answer 2

As far as I know the question mark is put in front of the sentence to let the reader know that the following sentence is a question.

hope that helps