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.
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