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Name:_________________________Capitalizing Sentences, Quotations, and Salutations ITo capitalize means to begin a word with a capital letter. Capitalize the first word of every sentence.This assignment is due early next week.The first word of a direct quotation is capitalized if the quotation is a complete sentence.Mrs. Crawford said, “Start with the dictionary.”Sometimes other words interrupt a direct quotation. Do not capitalize the beginning of the second part of an interrupted quotation unless the second part begins a new sentence.“Start with the dictionary,” said Mrs. Crawford, “where you can find a lot of useful facts.”“Start with the dictionary,” said Mrs. Crawford. “You can find a wealth ofuseful facts in the dictionary.”Write C in the blank if the sentence is correct.Exercise 1 Draw three lines under each lowercase letter that should be capitalized.“do you know,” asked Mrs. Crawford, “anybody in history named Webster?”1. “Daniel Webster,” answered Mark, “lived a long time ago.”2.“yes, he did,” responded the teacher. “do you know another Webster?”3.“I do,” ventured Tasha. “did he write Webster’s Dictionary?”4.the other students did not add anything to the discussion.5.everyone knew a project was waiting to be assigned.6.“who wants to research dictionaries?” thought Arnoldo. “i certainly don’t.”7.Noah, however, thought that words were interesting to study.8.“I want everyone to look in an encyclopedia,” said Mrs. Crawford.9.she suggested topics such as “dictionary,” “lexicographer,” and “Noah Webster.”10. “hey,” thought Noah, “maybe Noah Webster invented the English language. that’s where I’m going to start.”11. “then,” Mrs. Crawford added, “write five sentences.”12. “give them to me on Friday,” the teacher said. “on Monday we will share our information.”13. Noah decided to start right away.first Noah looked in the encyclopedia under “Noah Webster.”15. He didn’t see anything about Noah Webster’s inventing the English language. 16. however, the article noted that Noah Webster was an American lexicographer.17. “‘Lexicographer’ is one of the suggested topics,” Noah said to himself.18. “I don’t know what that word means,” said Noah out loud, “but I’m going to find out.”19. “Then I will know what’s so important about Noah Webster,” he continued.20. Noah looked for the word lexicographer in the dictionary.“well, what do you know?” whistled Noah. “a lexicographer writes dictionaries!”22. Noah read some interesting articles about Noah Webster.he was eager to share information in class on Monday.24. Noah also wanted to hear what the other students had learned.on Monday the teacher asked for volunteers.Kofi reported, “he was born in Connecticut in 1758.”“he fought with Washington in the Revolutionary War,” added Jeff.28. Marianne added that he wrote a spelling book and a dictionary. 29. “Webster’s Dictionary was the first American dictionary,” contributed Noah.he further explained, “Webster put new words in his dictionary, and he changed the spelling and pronunciation of others.”“webster wanted his book to be a dictionary of American English.”“the really important thing that Noah Webster did,” Noah said, “was to help make American English its own language.” ................
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