I hate Mondays! Oh no! I hate winter! Having a summer birthday is the best. The capitalization rules for titles of books, movies, and other works vary a little between style guides. In general, you should capitalize the first word, all nouns, all verbs even short ones, like is , all adjectives, and all proper nouns. That means you should lowercase articles, conjunctions, and prepositions—however, some style guides say to capitalize conjunctions and prepositions that are longer than five letters.
Sense and Sensibility is better than Pride and Prejudice. The names of cities, countries, nationalities, and languages are proper nouns, so you should capitalize them. English is made up of many languages, including Latin, German, and French. My mother is British, and my father is Dutch. The capital of Botswana is Gaborone. Most of the World War I veterans are now deceased. In the Middle Ages, poor hygiene was partly responsible for the spreading of bubonic plague.
Middle school students often enjoy studying the social changes that took place during the Roaring Twenties. Only nonrestrictive modifiers are separated by commas. Taking this into account, the sentences that contain correctly punctuated nonrestrictive modifiers are: My oldest sister, Maria, is a pilot — If we remove Maria, we can still identify which sister we are talking about. Noah, who draws comic books in his free time, wants to write a graphic novel.
Commas are used to separate clauses and are being placed around where there are nonrestrictive modifiers. The sentence that contains an infinitive is 2. Explanation: Sentences A and E contain split infinitives.
A split infinitive occurs when other words come between the two parts of the infinitive. Though some writing teachers argue they are often not a big deal, they can seem informal and cause confusion. To fix a split infinitive, rearrange the sentence so that no words come between the two parts of the infinitive. An infinitive consists of the word to and the simple form of a verb e. Nonetheless, there is often no good reason not to split infinitives, and in some cases it can improve clarity, avoid weak language, or prevent writing from sounding overly formal.
A split infinitive is when other words creep into the middle of an English infinitive. The Victorians decided that splitting an infinitive was a grammatical mistake, and some people still agree with them.
An infinitive will almost always begin with to. Exceptions do occur, however. For example, an infinitive will lose its to when it follows these verbs: feel, hear, help, let, make, see, and watch. Between the verb and the infinitive, you will find a direct object.
A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push. There are two infinitives in this sentence: stop and listen. They are both the objects of the sentence. Since the word winter isn't part of a name here, it shouldn't be capitalized. This word is the part of the holiday's name.
So it's correct to capitalize the first letter of Day here. This word is still part of the name of a holiday, so the first letter needs to be capitalized. This word is part of the name of a holiday, so it's correct to capitalize the first letter. A title for a person can be based on someone's job like the word doctor or a family relationship like the word aunt.
The first letter of a title should be capitalized if the title is used as part of someone's name. For example, doctor is capitalized if you call someone Doctor Green.
If you call someone Aunt Joan , you capitalize the word aunt. How can you tell if a title is being used as part of a name? First, you can look at the word before the title. When a title comes after the words my , your , his , her , our , their , a , an , or the , the title isn't being used as a name so it shouldn't be capitalized. For example:. In this sentence, the word captain comes after the word the, so captain is not capitalized.
Alternatively, if captain was part of someone's name, like Captain Blake , it would be capitalized. Here's an example:. In this sentence, we capitalized judge because it appears with the name Rude.
If the sentence said I always watch the judge's show , the word judge wouldn't be capitalized. Family titles are often used instead of names, like the word Mom in the image above. When you see a family title by itself, you can use our earlier hint and look at the word before the title.
In this image, the word dad is not capitalized because the word before it is your. Here's another example:. In this sentence, the word mom comes after the word my , so mom shouldn't be capitalized. When you're writing about an official group, only important words in the group's name should be capitalized. This means we won't capitalize shorter words like and , the , or , in , of , or for.
For example, in the band name Dice and Tokens , we only capitalize the words dice and tokens. The same rule applies to names of organizations like the National Organization for Women and government departments like the Department of Education.
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