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What should you capitalize in English language?
Capitalize the pronoun I; First word of each sentence; Proper noun of people, organizations, places; months, days of the week, titles, acronyms, names of languages, races, continents, and religions.
1) Capitalize the pronoun I.
Example: Jennifer and I went to the movies yesterday.
2) Capitalize the first letter of the first word of each sentence.
Example: Learning to capitalize correctly will improve your writing.
3) Capitalize the first letter of names of people, organizations, and
places.
Example: Asif went on a trip to Tokyo, Japan for his company, Human Services Globe Corp.
4) Capitalize the first letter of adjectives that are made from the
names of people and places.
Example: I like Kashmiri food.
5) Capitalize initials
Example: My brother's favorite author is ____ ______s.
6) Capitalize the first letter of directions only when they are used
to designate actual places, not when they point in a direction.
Example: When we visited the Southwest, we actually had to drive north.
7) Capitalize the first letter of the names of months and
the days of the week.
Example: My birthday will be on a Friday next June.
8) Capitalize the official title of a person (including abbreviations),
but only when you use it with the person's name.
Example: Did Clarissa recommend Dr. Qureshi to you?
9) Capitalize words used as names or parts of names.
Example: Did Uncle Qureshi call my aunt to tell her our grandmother is with Dad?
10) Capitalize the first letter of important words in a title of a
book, magazine, story, essay, etc.
Example: I enjoyed Mark's essay, "The Truth About Being a Good Student."
11) Capitalize historical events and documents.
Example: The Emancipation Proclamation was issued during the Civil War.
12) Capitalize the name of languages, races, Continents and
religions.
Example: I learned in Spanish class that several Hispanics are Catholic.
13) Capitalize acronyms. (An acronym is a word formed by the
first, or first few, letters of words in a long name of an
organization.)
Example: HSG Human Services Globe
14) Capitalize initialisms. (An initialism is similar to acronym, but
a word is not formed from the letters.)
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Basic rule: only capitalize the words that indicate a specific or exact title.
Specific degree titles:
…a bachelor’s degree in business administration
…a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration
I am majoring in electrical engineering / mechanical engineering
I am working on a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering.
I am studying environmental science.
I am earning a degree through the Environmental Science Program at the University of
Idaho.
Specific course titles:
I have taken many computer science courses.
I have taken Computer Science 370, Digital Design.
I took a digital design course.
I took a course on systems analysis.
I took Systems Analysis and Design.
Names of languages, regions, months, days:
I took German, English, and literature classes.
I am interested in American studies.
I will graduate in May, 2001.
I will graduate at the end of spring semester, 2002.
Person’s titles:
Vice President Jerry Wallace stood …. (capitalize when in front)
Jerry Wallace, vice president of finance at the University of Idaho, stood ….
(Capitalize all titles in the address and salutation of a letter.)
Place names:
the Northwest (no directions: Go northwest.)
the Snake River
Trademarks and some abbreviations:
Xerox
PDT
DOT
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1. Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun 'I':
* What can I say?
2. Use a capital letter to begin a sentence or to begin speech:
* The man arrived. He sat down.
* Suddenly Mary asked, "Do you love me?"
3. Use capital letters for many abbreviations and acronyms:
* G.M.T. or GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
* N.A.T.O. or NATO or Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
4. Use a capital letter for days of the week, months of the year, holidays:
* Monday, Tuesday
* January, February
* Christmas
* Armistice Day
5. Use a capital letter for countries, languages & nationalities, religions:
* France
* Japanese, English
* Christianity, Buddhism
6. Use a capital letter for people's names and titles:
* Anthony, Ram, William Shakespeare
* Professor Jones, Dr Smith
* Captain Kirk, King Henry VIII
7. Use a capital letter for trade-marks and names of companies and other organizations:
* Pepsi Cola, Walkman
* Microsoft Corporation, Toyota
* the United Nations, the Red Cross
8. Use a capital letter for places and monuments:
* London, Paris, the Latin Quarter
* the Eiffel Tower, St Paul's Cathedral
* Buckingham Palace, the White House
* Oxford Street, Fifth Avenue
* Jupiter, Mars, Syrius
* Asia, the Middle East, the North Pole
9. Use a capital letter for names of vehicles like ships, trains and spacecraft:
* the Titanic
* the Orient Express, the Flying Scotsman
* Challenger 2, the Enterprise
10. Use a capital letter for titles of books, poems, songs, plays, films etc:
* War And Peace
* If, Futility
* Like a Virgin
* The Taming of the Shrew
* The Lion King, Gone With The Wind
11. Use capitals letters (sometimes!) for headings, titles of articles, books etc, and newspaper headlines:
What to Capitalize in a Title
http://www.englishclub.com/writing/caps0.htm
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/adv_tech_wrt/resources/sentence_style/capital_letters.htm
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