When do we Use Capital Letters?
1. Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun 'I':
- What can I say?
2. Use a capital letter to begin a sentence or to begin speech:
- The man arrived. He sat down.
- Suddenly Mary asked, "Do you love me?"
3. Use capital letters for many abbreviations and acronyms:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Pepsi Cola, Walkman
- Microsoft Corporation, Toyota
- the United Nations, the Red Cross
8. Use a capital letter for places and monuments:
- London, Paris, the Latin Quarter
- the Eiffel Tower, St Paul's Cathedral
- Buckingham Palace, the White House
- Oxford Street, Fifth Avenue
- Jupiter, Mars, Sirius
- Asia, the Middle East, the North Pole
9. Use a capital letter for names of vehicles like ships, trains and spacecraft:
- the Titanic
- the Orient Express, the Flying Scotsman
- Challenger 2, the Enterprise
10. Use a capital letter for titles of books, poems, songs, plays, films etc:
- War And Peace
- If, Futility
- Like a Virgin
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Lion King, Gone With The Wind
11. Use capitals letters (sometimes!) for headings, titles of articles, books etc, and newspaper headlines:
- HOW TO WIN AT POKER
- Chapter 2: CLINTON'S EARLY LIFE
- LIFE FOUND ON MARS!
- MAN BITES DOG
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