Monday, June 9, 2014

Capitalization

Capitalization rules

Capitalization is the writing of a word with the first letter as uper-case letter (A,B, C, D,...) and the rest of the word as lower-case letters (a,b,c,d,...)
Read the capitalization rules and study the examples given. 
THE RULES

Capitalize the first word in a sentence. 
They arrived late. They had dinner and went to sleep. 
The first word in a quote. 
He said, "You are fantastic.
Capitalize " I ". 
I'm very sorry for being late. I missed the bus. 
Capitalize proper nouns. 
George was furious when he heard the bad news from Alice. 
Capitalize names of rivers, mountains. 
The Nile River is in Egypt.
The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest. 
The official title of a person, the initials in someone's name are capitalized 
Dr Lynch
D. H. Lawrance is a wonderful novelist. 
Days of the week, months of the year, holidays are capitalized.
We went to Paris on Monday and came back on Saturday.

The Independence Day is in July not January. 
Capitalize countries, cities, languages, nationalities.
New York is more exciting than seatle.

He lives in London, but he's not English. He's Nigerian.
He speaks English, Chinese and Japanese. 
The first word in each line of a poem.

            "Who will believe my verse in time to come,
            If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
            Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
            Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts."
            Shakespeare.


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