Chapter 13 Exams
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| Words in what “first” position are capitalized? | first word every sentence, first word of a directly quoted sentence, first word of a sentence fragment used in dialogue. (ex: "Not now," Vanessa replied. "Maybe later.”)
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| Which words in the salutation or closing of letters are capitalized? | Capitalize the first word in both the salutation and the closing of a letter. (ex: Dear Mr. Chuen: Sincerely yours, )
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| Which nouns are capitalized (common, proper)? | A proper noun names a particular person, place, thIng, or Idea … these are capitalized (ex: river, Nile River)
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| When are prepositions capitalized? | short prepositions (< five letters) and artIcles (a, an, the) are generally not capitalized (ex: Alexander the Great)
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| When are articles a/an/the capitalized? |
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| When do you capitalize street numbers? | in a hyphenated street number, the second part of the number is not capitalized. (ex: East Seventy
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| When do you capitalize heavenly bodies, planets, stars? | capitalize the names of planets, stars, constellations, and other heavenly bodies. (ex: the Big Dipper)
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| When is the word earth capitalized? | The word earth is not capitalized unless it is used along with names of other heavenly bodies that are capitalized. (ex: Is Earth located in the galaxy called the Milky Way? versus The earth is not the only planet that has a moon. [no named heavenly bod
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| Do you capitalize sun or moon? | The words sun and moon are not capitalized.
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| Are groups capitalized? | Capitalize names of teams, organizations, intitutions, and government bodies. (ex: New Orleans Saints, Sandusky High School, Louisiana State Senate)
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| When do you capitalize political words? | Do not capitalize such words as democratic, republican, and socialist when they refer to principles or forms of government. Capitalize these when they refer to a specific political party. (ex: a democratic country versus Republican candidate)
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| When do calendar items get capitalized? | Capitalize the names of historical events and periods, special events, holidays, and any other calendar items. (ex: Civil War, Middle Ages, World Series [baseball finals], Kwanzaa, Friday, May)
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| Are days, months, or seasons capitalized? | Days and months are but seasons are not (Friday, May, spring). However, season IS capitalized if it is part of a proper name. (ex: Oak Ridge Winter carnival)
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| When do you capitalize religious terms | names of religions and their followers, holy days, celebrations, sacred writings, and specific deities. (ex: Muslim, Christians, Easter, Ramadan, the Torah, the Bible, God, Holy Spirit). DO NOT capitalize gods when they refer to deities of ancient mythol
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| Do you capitalize structures? | Capitalize the names of buildings and other structures used as part of a proper name, BUT not if used as common noun. (ex: Golden Gate Bridge, hotel, Hilton Hotel, theater, Sangaer Theater)
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| Do items used in transportation (trains etc) get capitalized? | Capitalize the names of PROPER trains, ships, aircraft & spacecraft. (ex: USS Alabama, Columbia, Orient Express)
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| Do awards, monuments or memorials get capitalized? | yes (ex: the Great Sphinx, Nobel Prize, Washington Monument, Academy Awards)
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| Do business names or brands get capitalized? | Yes, Capitalize the names of businesses and the brand names of business products. (ex: Nike shoes, American Airlines, Apple Computer, Inc.)
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| When does one capitalize the names of school subjects? | Do not capitalize the names of school subjects, except course names followed by numerals and languages. (ex: math, art, Art I, Science 101, Latin, Spanish)
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| When are a person’s title capitalized? | capitalize titles that come before persons name ( Commander Baumgarten) but NOT if title is used alone OR comes after the person’s name (The commander spoke at the ceremony. Jeff Baumgarten, commander, spoke)
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| Are family relationships capitalized? | capitalize a word showing a family relationship when the word is used before or in place of a person's name. (ex: Will Mom be home tonight? When is Grandma Shirley coming?). Do NOT capitalize if they follow a possessive noun/pronoun (ex: Alex’s mom and g
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| Which words in titles are capitalized? | the FIRST and LAST words and all important words are capitalized. Some unimportant words include prepositions with < 5 letters, articles (a/an/the), coordinating conjunctions (and/but/for/nor/or/so/yet). Ex: A Wrinkle in Time [a is capitalized since it’s
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| What parts of books are capitalized? | Capitalize the titles of chapters and other parts of books. (ex: I outlined Chapter 13 of my language book, Capital Letters Rules for Capitalization.)
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