Capitalization

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Capitalization
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When to use capital letters

• The first word of every sentence
• The pronoun I
• Proper nouns
• A noun that names a particular person, place or
  thing
• Names of organizations, business firms,
  institutions, government bodies
• Debate Club, Department of Agriculture
• Special events and historical events and periods
• World Series, Ice Age, Revolutionary War

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Practice

• i am in a middle school
• i go to wisdom lane middle school
• my favorite writer is david foster wallace
• he won tickets to the world series
• martha is studying world war II.

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Some more rules

• Capitalize proper adjectives
• An adjective that is made from a proper noun
• The Italian language, Chinese food
• Abbreviations of days, months, parts of
  addresses, and states
• Niles School Art Fair
• Sat., Feb. 8th, 9 A.M.
• 110 N. Elm Dr.
• Peoples titles
• Ms. Cooke, Dr. Thompson

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Some more practice

• how long have you been seeing dr. thompson?
• the spanish explorers discovered the mississippi
  river before the english settlers landed at
  jamestown.
• the founder of the american red cross was clara
  barton
• dr. charles b. stevens
• elmwood memorial hospital
• 1411 first street
• tuscon, az 85062