Capitalization and Punctuation: Capital Letters
Every sentence begins with a capital letter.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
A proper noun begins with a capital letter.
A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing. Proper nouns include people's names, titles, brand names, languages and nationalities, and the names of days and months (but not seasons). For example:
| Common noun |
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Proper noun |
| woman | | Damaris |
| son | | Julius |
| my uncle | | Uncle Ernie |
| college president | | President Bliss |
| a new detergent | | Cloud Puff |
| my accounting class | | Accounting 243 |
| studying a language | | studying Spanish |
| holiday | | Thanksgiving |
| month | | June |
The pronoun I is always spelled as a capital letter.
When I think of traveling, I always wish I could go to Borneo.
A capital letter begins the first, last, and any important word in the title of a book, magazine article, story, poem, movie, or other work.
Have you read Paul Hoch's analysis of football, Rip Off the Big Game?
Use capital letters only when you have a good reason to do so.
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