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    The document discusses punctuation and spelling, specifically capital letters. It provides examples of when to use capital letters such as at the beginning of sentences, for proper nouns like names and places, and for titles. It also lists specific types of words that are capitalized like days, months, and titles of creative works.

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    Punctuation & spelling

    Capital letters
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    English sentences always begin with a capital letter.

    We saw the accident from a distance.


    The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

    The personal pronoun "I" is always written with a capital letter, wherever in a sentence it comes:
    I like horror films.

    Jenny and I went to the beach together.

    Apart from these cases, capital letters are used at the beginning of the following types of words:
    Names of people and places
    Peter

    Susan
    Australia
    Hyde Park
    the Middle East

    Planets and stars can be considered as places:


    Jupiter

    Pluto
    Alpha Centauri

    Titles

    Mr Finnegan
    Mrs Edgeware
    Ms Johnson
    Dr Jacobs
    Major Fingleton
    the Director General

    Days, months and public holidays


    Monday

    Friday
    July
    December
    Christmas
    Ramadan
    Yom Kippur

    Nationalities and regions, languages, religions and ethnic groups


    a German car

    the Scandinavian countries


    She speaks Russian and Chinese
    a Muslim cleric
    the Aboriginal people

    Titles of books, magazines, films, songs, etc.


    War and Peace

    Rolling Stone
    the New Statesman
    Citizen Kane
    Stairway to Heaven
    the Mouse Trap

    Notice that articles, prepositions, conjunctions, etc. are not usually capitalised.
    http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/caps.html
    More information on capital letters:
    http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/capitals.htm
    http://www.taft.cc.ca.us/jbuddell/CAPITALS.HTML
    http://www.grammarbook.com/ (follow links to "punctuation/capitalization")
    Quizzes and exercises on capital letters:
    http://www.quia.com/mc/3522.html
    http://webster.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/par_numberless_quiz.pl/caps_quiz.htm
    http://www.grammarbook.com/ (follow links to "punctuation / capitalization

    / are you ready for the

    exercise")
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