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Name: ____________________________________ Date: ____________ English Teacher: ___________________________ English Class Period: ________CapitalizationThe first letter of the first word in every sentence is always capitalized. The first letter of each proper noun is capitalized.-A proper noun is a word which names a particular person, place or thing. For example, your name is a proper noun because it names you. A proper noun does not name people, places, or things in general. The names of days of the week and months of the year are capitalized.Thursday it the tenth of February.The names of the seasons are not capitalized unless they are being given human-like actions.My favorite season is spring.I noticed that Spring pranced in on Winter’s heavy heel.The names of specific people are capitalized. John and Jacob went to Jeff’s house.The names of titles are capitalized if they are used to name a specific title holder, but not capitalized if they refer to the title alone. President Clinton relied on the strength of his generals.(“generals” and “president” are both titles, but president is capitalized as it is used in conjunction with Clinton.)The first letter of each word in the name of a geographic location is capitalized. We visited the Great Barrier Reef.I swam in the Pacific Ocean.The names of academic years (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) are not capitalized.The freshman are astute scholars of grammar.General nouns used to name subjects in school are not capitalized unless they are describing a specific course or an ethnic group.We had a geometry class.We went to Algebra II.I love my Spanish class.The names of directions are not capitalized, unless referring to geographic regions.Go west on I-70.The Far East is an interesting place. Names of trademarks should be capitalized but the general product should not.Coca-Cola soft drinks are bubbly.Oscar Meyer bologna is made with pork.The names of political parties are not capitalized.He is a democrat.All words in a title should be capitalized with the exceptions of prepositions, articles and conjunctions. The first word of the title is always capitalized regardless of part of speech.Of Mice and MenThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.3. The pronoun “I” is always capitalized.4. The letters in an abbreviation are generally capitalized. (A couple of exceptions are the abbreviations “a.m.” and “p.m.” They are usually not capitalized.)Directions – The following sentences may have capitalization errors. If so, circle the error and rewrite the word that needs fixing, above the line, with proper capitalization. Do not rewrite the whole sentence. If the sentence is OK, write OK before the number.we traveled miles before joe stopped to ask for directions.he told me that I shouldn’t drink Coca-Cola.Jane went to see the Elephants at the zoo.Although bill remarked that he was proud to live in the u.s.a., i couldn’t help but doubt his patriotism.We must catch our flight at 7:30 a.m.I went to spanish class.I went to math class.On tuesday, february 2nd, the groundhog predicted an early Spring.Jefferson said, “we hold these truths to be self-evident.”i like to listen to the radio while I drive down broadway street in my hometown of englewood, colorado. ................
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