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Flashcards by Cecilia Alvear, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Cecilia Alvear
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| CAPITAL LETTER Cecilia Alvear Marco Suarez Maria Bustillo | When do we Use Capital Letters? |
| 1. Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun 'I'. | Example: What can I say? |
| 2. Use a capital letter to begin a sentence or to begin speech: | Example: * The man arrived. He sat down. * Suddenly Mary asked, "Do you love me?" |
| 3. Use capital letters for many abbreviations and acronyms: | Example: 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: | Example: * Monday, Tuesday *January, February *Christmas * Armistice Day |
| 5. Use a capital letter for countries, languages & nationalities, religions: | China, France Japanese, English Christianity, Buddhism |
| 6. Use a capital letter for people's names and titles: | Example: *Anthony, Ram, William Shakespeare *Professor Jones, Dr Smith *Captain Kirk, King Henry VIII |
| 7. Use a capital letter for trade-marks and names of companies and other organizations: | Examples: *Pepsi Cola, Walkman *Microsoft Corporation, Toyota |
| 9. Use a capital letter for titles of books, poems, songs, plays, films etc: | Example: * The Lion King |
| 10. Use capital letters (sometimes!) for headings, titles of articles, books etc, and newspaper headlines: | Examples: * HOW TO WIN AT POKER * Chapter 2: CLINTON'S EARLY LIFE * LIFE FOUND ON MARS! |
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