Capitalization rules
Capitalization is the writing of a word with the first letter as upper-case letter (A,B, C, D,...) and the rest of the word as lower-case letters (a,b,c,d,...)
This is a summary of the capitalization.
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. Lawrence 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 Seattle.
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.
Subject: Capitalization Rules 
Mon Jan 11, 2016 4:58 pm
