Why does the French language put spaces before their ending punctuation mark?
I don't know if it's just the French language, but they always seem to put a space before the ending punctuation mark (periods, exclamation marks, question marks) Is there a reason for that? Would it be wrong to write French without the space at the end?
Public Comments
- Never noticed that. I don“t think they do. they never did in my textbooks.
- Never seen that either...
- The rule is the same as in English. You don't need to put a space before any ending ponctuation mark. Someones do that only because they think it's more clear.
- Hi, it is true that punctuation in English and in French are different, for example with ";", but for the point the rule is French is no space before but a space after, the same in English.
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