Tham khảo tài liệu 'about the ged writing exam 6', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | MECHANICS Capitalization Capitalization is an important tool to help us identify 1 the beginning of a new sentence and 2 proper nouns and adjectives. Here are six rules for correct capitalization 1. Capitalize the first word of a sentence. Please close the door. What are you trying to say If you are quoting a full sentence within your own sentence use a capital letter unless you introduce the quote with that. The author notes A shocking three out of four students admitted to cheating. The author notes that a shocking three out of four students admitted to cheating. If you have a full sentence within parentheses that sentence should be capitalized as well and the end punctuation mark should be within the parentheses . He was expelled for repeatedly violating the school s code of conduct. He was caught stealing and cheating several times. 2. Capitalize proper nouns. A proper noun is the name of a specific person place or thing as opposed to a general person place or thing . See the table at the bottom of this page. 3. Capitalize the days of the weeks and months of the year but not the seasons. It was a warm spring day in May. Wednesday is the first official day of autumn. 4. Capitalize the names of countries nationalities geographical regions languages and religions. He has traveled to Brazil and Tunisia. She is half Chinese half French. She is from the South. But Drive south for five miles. We speak Spanish at home. He is a devout Catholic. CAPITALIZE SPECIFIC DON T CAPITALIZE GENERAL Jennifer Johnson specific person the lady Algebra 101 specific class my math class Main Street specific street on the street Frosted Flakes specific brand good cereal Caspian Sea specific sea deep sea ocean Lincoln Memorial specific monument impressive memorial monument . Cole specific ship naval carrier Dade High School specific school our high school Precambrian Age specific time period long ago Microsoft Corporation specific company that company 65 MECHANICS 5. Capitalize titles
