{"id":32,"date":"2019-05-31T23:14:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/chapter\/grammar-lesson-capitalization\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T08:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:07:56","slug":"grammar-lesson-capitalization","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/chapter\/grammar-lesson-capitalization\/","title":{"raw":"Grammar Lesson - Capitalization","rendered":"Grammar Lesson &#8211; Capitalization"},"content":{"raw":"<h2><span style=\"color: #993300\">Basic Rules of Capitalization<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"box generalbox center clearfix py-3\">\n<div class=\"no-overflow\" data-ally-richcontent=\"page:page:content:28355\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Using proper capitalization is one of the easiest ways to show that you are a professional writer.\u00a0 Here are a few simple rules to help you use capitals correctly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Rule 1:\u00a0<\/strong>Always capitalize the word \"I.\" Always!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Rule 2:\u00a0<\/strong>Capitalize the first word of a sentence. Always!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Rule 3: <\/strong>Capitalize proper nouns (names of specific people, places or things--Google, George Washington, Albany, OR).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><strong>*NOTE<\/strong>: Common nouns, such as a president, a country, a business, a college, DO NOT get capitalized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Rule 4<\/strong>: Don't use capitals for emphasis. Writing in all caps is hard to read, and it can seem like you are yelling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Incorrect example<\/span>: I am sending you an <strong>I<\/strong>mportant <strong>M<\/strong>essage about our <strong>M<\/strong>eeting (no proper nouns).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Incorrect example<\/span>: I AM SENDING YOU AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE (all caps).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Correct example:<\/span> I am sending you an important message.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #008000\"><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n \t<li>\"<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/grammar_quiz\/capitalization_1.asp\">Capitalization Quiz<\/a><\/span><\/strong>,\" an ungraded practice quiz on capitalization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #993300\">Basic Rules of Capitalization<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"box generalbox center clearfix py-3\">\n<div class=\"no-overflow\" data-ally-richcontent=\"page:page:content:28355\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Using proper capitalization is one of the easiest ways to show that you are a professional writer.\u00a0 Here are a few simple rules to help you use capitals correctly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Rule 1:\u00a0<\/strong>Always capitalize the word &#8220;I.&#8221; Always!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Rule 2:\u00a0<\/strong>Capitalize the first word of a sentence. Always!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Rule 3: <\/strong>Capitalize proper nouns (names of specific people, places or things&#8211;Google, George Washington, Albany, OR).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><strong>*NOTE<\/strong>: Common nouns, such as a president, a country, a business, a college, DO NOT get capitalized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Rule 4<\/strong>: Don&#8217;t use capitals for emphasis. Writing in all caps is hard to read, and it can seem like you are yelling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Incorrect example<\/span>: I am sending you an <strong>I<\/strong>mportant <strong>M<\/strong>essage about our <strong>M<\/strong>eeting (no proper nouns).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Incorrect example<\/span>: I AM SENDING YOU AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE (all caps).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Correct example:<\/span> I am sending you an important message.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #008000\"><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/grammar_quiz\/capitalization_1.asp\">Capitalization Quiz<\/a><\/span><\/strong>,&#8221; an ungraded practice quiz on capitalization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[49],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-32","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":24,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/24"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/32\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/techwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}