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Wednesday 29 June 2022

Rules of Punctuation ( Capital Letters)

 Capital Letters


(a) At the beginning of every sentence.

(b) At the beginning of a passage of direct quotation (sec subsection 6 below)

(c) For proper nouns (i.e. names of particular persons, places, things) and for months of the year and days of the week:

For example Jane, Africa, Sydney, July, Tuesday

(d) For adjectives derived from proper nouns (especially places and people) e.g. English, French and Victorian (except for common compounds like Venetian blinds and Brussels sprouts, where the adjective has lost its original emphasis).

(e) For the first and all main words in any kind of title: books, plays, poems, (e.g. from Maddening Crowd), films, newspapers, magazines(e.g. Time), names of ships, houses, a person's title (e.g. Prime Minister of Australia) the titles of institutions and businesses. Abbreviations of titles (e.g. Gov.)

(f) At the beginning of each line of verse (except in some modern poetry).

(g) For the pronoun I.

(h) For He, His, when referring to God.

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