What is Capitalization? When to use capital letters and when to use lowercase letters in a sentence?
What is Capitalization? When to use capital letters and when to use lowercase letters in a sentence?
Capitalization is the use of an uppercase letter at the beginning of a word or sentence.
Capital letters should be used at the start of a sentence, at the start of proper nouns (names, places, titles, etc.), and in certain abbreviations.
Lowercase letters should be used for the other words in a sentence.
Examples of proper nouns that should be capitalized include: people’s names (John Doe), countries (United States), cities (Los Angeles), and official titles (Mayor Smith).
Examples of abbreviations that should be capitalized include: acronyms (NASA), initialisms (FBI), and contractions (don’t).
Common nouns (dog, house, book) should always be written in lowercase.
Proper nouns at the beginning of a sentence should be capitalized (John went to the store), but common nouns should remain lowercase (the cat chased the mouse).
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