CAPITALIZATION RULES

Most of the concerns in people about writing composition comes from capitalization. First of all, capitalization is the use of capital letters in sentences. I have to recognize that I have many problems to know when I have to put a capital letter in my written compositions. However, I found information about this problematic aspect and I hope that this new information could help you to overcome your difficulties.





a) The first word in a sentence:

•  When I comes back, I will visit us.
• An apple a day, keeps doctors away.

b) The pronoun "I" should be written in capital letter and it does not matter if it is located at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence:

• I Studied a lot but I could not pass the exam.

c) The first wor
d in quotations:

• Billy Crystal said, "Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place".

d) The names of books, poems, songs, movies, plays, etc. Prepositions or articles should not be written with a capital letter, for example "the", "a" or "an". Except if these words constitute the first word of a title. But prepositions that integrate a compound verb or phrasal verb, are usually capitalized.

• "The Old Man and the Sea" was written by Hemingway.
• Yesterday I saw the movie "Looking After a Baby".

e) The kin when they are used as proper nouns:

• I have just bought this tie for Father. Have you bought anything for your father?
• My sister wrote a letter to Uncle Philip, but not to her two other uncles.

f) The names of countries, nationalities, languages​​, days of the week, months of the year and holidays are capitalized. The station names are written without capital letter when they are used in general

• El Salvador / United States
• Salvadorean / American
• Spanish/ English
• Friday / September
• Halloween Day
• winter, spring

g) Names of God, certain deities or personifications (as Death), figures and religious books, except when they are mentioned on the board:

• God the Father / the Bible / the Death / Moses

h) The geographical names and the cardinal points, when they integrate the section of a country but not when they are used generalized. Observe:

• San Salvador de Jujuy / the Grand Canyon
• My parents have moved to the Northwest of Argentina.
• My parents live 10 miles north of Salta.

i) The periods and historical events but not the number of centuries.

• Medieval Era / Geeological Era / Great Depression
• eighteenth century

j) The trademarks.

• Google / Hewlett Packard / OM Personal