Hello, fellas! How’s your weekend? Today’s session will discuss some rules that are related to capitalization. Capitalization is the action of writing a word with uppercase for the first letter and lowercase for the remaining letters. Let’s check some rules of capitalization below.
- Capitalize the first word of every sentence.
- Example:
- “I’m happy you gave me a huge bouquet of roses. Jim, you really pull out all the stops.”
- Example:
- Capitalize the first-person singular pronoun, I.
- Example:
- “I want to eat apple.”
- “Where did I put the book?”
- Example:
- Capitalize people’s name.
- Example:
- “Christopher Nolan is an excellent director, screenwriter, and producer.”
- Example:
- Capitalize the proper nouns (names of the cities, countries, geological location).
- Example:
- “She’s from Maluku, Indonesia.”
- “We’ve been in Northern California for a holiday.”
- Example:
- Capitalize the proper nouns (historical event, political parties, religion and religious term, races, nationality, languages).
- Example:
- “Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.”
- “There are many Asians living in America.”
- “Thank, God!”
- Example:
- Capitalize days of the week, month, holiday. However, do not capitalize the names of seasons (spring, summer, fall, autumn, winter).
- Example:
- “Today is Saturday, December 13, 2018.”
- “Out of all season, I love spring the most!”
- Example:
- Capitalize the proper nouns (names of newspaper, journal, company, and brand name).
- Example:
- “Most newspaper have an online edition, including the New York Times.”
- “The current trend of South Korean idols is to wear Balenciaga shoes.”
- Example:
- Capitalize a formal title when it is used as a form of address.
- Example:
- “Thank you for your help, Doctor!”
- “Let’s visit Grandfather today.”
- Example:
That wraps up our session, Fellas! See you on another interesting session.
Compiled and written by @anhtiss at @EnglishTips4U on Saturday, Januari 13, 2018.
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