Spoken English Note 12

             USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS

Capitalization is the writing of a word with its first letter in capital letter and the remaining letters in smaller letters.

The basic rule is to begin a sentence in capital letter all the time. However, it becomes more complex when using numbers, abbreviations, proper nouns, and so on mix together while writing any paragraph or story or anything.Here are some basic rules of capitaliztion in English language.  

RULE 1:

The most basic rule of capitalization is to capitalize the first word of a sentence.

Example:

 Radhika received a gift from the President of Bangladesh. 

RULE 2: 

Capitalize the pronoun “I” always no matter wherever it is used in a sentence.

Example: 

 I invited him to come to my house. 

RULE 3: 

Capitalize the first word of a quoted sentence. 

Example:

 The father said to the teacher, “Teach my daughter treating her as your own daughter.” 

RULE 4:

Capitalize the days of the week, the months of the year, and holidays, but not the seasons. However, seasons are capitalized when used as a proper title.

Example:

I have registered for three classes for Spring Semester 2013.

We celebrate Valentine’s Day on 14th February. 

RULE 5:

Capitalize members of national, political, racial, social, civic, and athletic groups. 

Example:

“Libertarians”, “Chinese” etc. 

RULE 6: 

Capitalize the names of specific course titles.

Example:

Ron likes World History.