Capitalization rules

Capitalization rules

Capitalization is the writing of a word with the first letter as uper-case letter (A,B, C, D,...) and the rest of the word as lower-case letters (a,b,c,d,...)
This is a summary of the capitalization.
Read the capitalization rules and study the examples given.

The rules

Capitalize the first word in a sentence.

• They arrived late. They had dinner and went to sleep.

The first word in a quote.

• He said, "You are fantastic."

Capitalize " I ".

• I'm very sorry for being late. I missed the bus.

Capitalize proper nouns.

• George was furious when he heard the bad news from Alice.

Capitalize names of rivers, mountains.

• The Nile River is in Egypt.
• The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest.

The official title of a person, the initials in someone's name are capitalized

• Dr Lynch
• D. H. Lawrance is a wonderful novelist.

Days of the week, months of the year, holidays are capitalized.

• We went to Paris on Monday and came back on Saturday.
• The Independence Day is in July not January.

Capitalize countries, cities, languages, nationalities.

• New York is more exciting than seatle.
• He lives in London, but he's not English. He's Nigerian.
• He speaks English, Chinese and Japanese.

The first word in each line of a poem.

• "Who will believe my verse in time to come,
  If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
  Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
  Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts."
  Shakespear.