Capitalization

Does life get any better?

• 1. Capitalize the first letter of the first word in every sentence.

• Examples:

• Every weekday I go to the teen center.

• We just got back from the mall.

• 2. Capitalize the first letter of the first word in every quote.

• Examples:• “How will we get home?” asked

Harmony.

• “She can’t wait till the party!” said Alyssa.

•

Fragmented Quotes

• “Not now,” said Ms. Verge. “Maybe later.”

Quoting from a story

• The air was “deadly cold” and the…

• No need to capitalize this since it wasn’t capitalized in the story.

• 3. Capitalize the pronoun I.• Examples:• When I get home, I’m going to shower.

• 4. Capitalize the interjection O.• Examples:• • Protect us in battle, O great Athena.

• When I get home, I’m going to shower.

• Capitalize the interjection O.

• Examples:

•

• Protect us in battle, O great Athena.

• Oh, our Mother the Earth.

• I think you are oh so great.

• Do not capitalize oh. Just O

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Capitalize Proper Nouns

• Examples:

• Common Nouns Proper Nouns

• athlete SherylSwoopes

• river Nile

• month February

Capitalize the names of persons and animals.

• Examples:

• Given names Alice Franklin Christy

• Surnames Walker Chang-Diaz Sandoz

• Animals Trigger Socks Rover

Capitalize geographical names

Towns, Cities: Jamestown Manor, San Diego,

• Counties, States• Cook County Bedford County Tennessee

New Hampshire

• Islands Wake Island Isle of Wight Countries Germany New Zealand

• Bodies of Water• Lake Erie Kentucky River Tampa Bay Indian

Ocean• Forests, Parks• Tahoe National Forest Chimney Rock

ParkStreets, • Highways• Madison Avenue West Fourth Street Route 44

Interstate 75

• Mountains: Mount Washington Big Horn Mountains

• Continents: Australia, Asia,

• North America, Africa

• Regions • West Coast• North Balkans Midwest• Other Geo. Names• Malay Peninsula Seneca Rocks • Suez Canal • Painted Desert Bering Strait • Dismal Swamp

• The birds fly south.

• I was driving in the East.

• I live on the West Coast

• A, an, the = capitalize West, South, North, East

• Capitalize Proper Nouns

• Nile

• February

• Nevada

• Capitalize geographical names.

• Jamestown

• New Zealand

• Route 44

• Capitalize a person’s title when the title comes before the person’s name.

• Does Reverend Ward work here?

• Does a reverend work here?

• Is the patient resting, Nurse?

• Capitalize a word showing a family relationship when the word is used before or in place of a person’s name, unless the word follows a possessive noun or pronoun.

• I received a letter from Aunt Cathie.• When will Mom and Dad be home?• Angela’s mother and my aunt Daphne coach

the girls’ softball team.• Tammy’s mom and dad never came home.