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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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