Transcript Capital-letters

Using Capital Letters
Capitalizing Words Correctly
1. the first word in a sentence
2. names (of people, places, things)
3. titles (but not all the words)
4. days & months (but not seasons)
This is the easiest capitalization rule:
Start every sentence with a capital letter...
He went to the store for milk.
Wait, I'm coming!
There is the book you lost.
Capitalize Proper Nouns
These include people's names:
George Washington
These also include names of specific places or things:
New York State
Disneyland
Winter Olympics
Capitalize Titles
Capitalize titles of Books, Magazines,
Articles, Movies, and so on. For
example:
Goodnight Moon
Finding Nemo
Local Team Goes to State Finals
But why wasn't "to" capitalized?
That's because we don't capitalize
"minor" words in titles.
Example:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The 3 Rules for Capitalizing Titles
1. Capitalize first and last words
2. Capitalize main words
3. Don't capitalize articles or prepositions
with fewer than four letters
Capitalize Days and Months
Monday and January
Don't capitalize seasons unless:
1. They are part of a proper name
The Fall Festival
2. They begin a sentence
Winter is beautiful.
Exercise: capitalize wherever necessary:
1. you really only have one good chance to get an education.
2. I'm going to the park with my friends kathy and bart.
3. paul's class schedule includes american history, spanish,
english, and math.
4. the chicago river runs into the mississippi valley
waterways.
5. mrs. clark asked if amy would help.
6. uncle rob took us to texas.
7. my aunt and i picked up the papers.
8. she saw snow white when she was five years old.