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Using Capital Letters

The document discusses capitalization rules in English. It notes that capital letters are mainly used for the first letter of sentences, names, days, months and abbreviations. Whole sentences or paragraphs in capital letters are difficult to read. The rest of the document lists specific cases where capital letters should be used, such as for pronouns, sentences, abbreviations, days/months, countries/languages, names, trademarks, places, vehicles, titles of works, oceans/rivers, and sometimes headings and titles.

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Using Capital Letters

The document discusses capitalization rules in English. It notes that capital letters are mainly used for the first letter of sentences, names, days, months and abbreviations. Whole sentences or paragraphs in capital letters are difficult to read. The rest of the document lists specific cases where capital letters should be used, such as for pronouns, sentences, abbreviations, days/months, countries/languages, names, trademarks, places, vehicles, titles of works, oceans/rivers, and sometimes headings and titles.

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Using Capital Letters

We can write each letter of the English alphabet as a small

letter (abc...) or as a large or capital letter (ABC...).

In English, we do NOT use capital letters very much. We use

them mainly for the first letter of sentences, names, days and

months as well as for some abbreviations. We always write the

first-person pronoun as a capital I.

It is not usual to write whole sentences in capitals. A sentence

or paragraph written in capitals is very difficult to read. Did you

ever see a book written in capital letters? Of course not! We

cannot easily read lots of text in capital letters.

When do we Use Capital Letters?

1. Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun 'I':

● What can I say?

● I come with you.

2. Use a capital letter to begin a sentence or to begin speech:

● The man arrived. He sat down.

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● 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,

and religions:

● China, France

● Japanese, English

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● 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, 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

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● Jupiter, Mars, Sirius

● Asia, the Middle East, the North Pole

9. Use a capital letter for names of vehicles like ships, trains

and spacecraft:

● Toyota, Mercedes, BMW 

● 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

● The Waste Land

● Like a Virgin

● King Lear, Hamlet, Merchant of Vince

● The Lion King, Gone With The Wind

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11. Use a capital letter for names of oceans, seas, rivers, lakes,

and famous landmarks:

● The Atlantic Ocean

● The Red Sea

● The Nile

● The Tigress and The Euphrates

● Al-Thirthar Lake 

● Eiffel Tower    

12. Use capital letters (sometimes!) for headings, titles of

articles, books etc., and newspaper headlines:

● HOW TO WIN AT POKER

● Chapter 2: SHAKSPEAR'S EARLY LIFE

● LIFE FOUND ON MARS!

● MAN BITES DOG

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