Chapter 45- Capital Letters

When you want to know about capital letters you should find a good dictionary. Capitalizing proper nouns and words derived from them and do not capitalize common nouns. Proper nouns are the names of specific persons, places, and things. All the other nouns are common nouns. Months, holidays, and days of the week are treated as proper nouns; the seasons and numbers of the days of the month are not.

In both titles and subtitles, major words such as nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs should be capitalized. Minor words such as articles, prepositions, and coordinating conjunctions are not capitalized unless they are the first or last word of a title or subtitle. Obviously you want to capitalize the first word of a sentence. When a sentence appears within parentheses, capitalize the first word unless the parentheses appear within another sentence.

Another important thing to remember is to capitalize abbreviations for departments and agencies of government, other organizations, and corporations; capitalize the call letters of radio and television stations.

After reading this chapter I didn’t realize how much there was to know about capitalizing words and when no too. Now I will be able to carefully capitalize the right words and know the proper way of doing sentences.