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Capital University
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EDUC 560 | Studies in English Language Structure and Linguistics
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2023
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CAPITALIZATION CAPITALIZE PROPER NAMES Specific persons, places, or things: Mark Twain, Asia, the Olympic Games Peoples and their languages: Africans, French Religions and their adherents: Christianity, Judaism, Jews, Christians Groups and their members: Democrats, the Mariners Geographical names and regions: Pacific Ocean, the Midwest Organizations and institutes: the Red Cross, Oxford University Historical documents and events: the Magna Carta, Middle Ages Calendar designations: Monday, July, Thanksgiving Trademarks: Kool-Aid, Kleenex Holy books and Deities: Allah, the Buddha, the Bible Pronouns referring to Deities: His grace Words essential to proper names: Main Street, Safeco Field Words derived from proper names: Washingtonian, Seattleite Acronyms: NASA, CBS, NATO, SCUBA Titles preceding proper names: Captain Jim Taylor, Dr. Jonas Salk CAPITALIZE TITLES In titles of books, plays, essays by students, and so forth, capitalize the first and last words, as well as all other words excluding articles (a, an, the), short conjunctions, and short prepositions (of). In titles, a conjunction or preposition of five or more letters is usually capitalized (through, without). Capitalize the first letter of a hyphenated compound. Capitalize the word following th hyphen if it is noun or a proper adjective or if it is of equal importance to the first word (“Hit-and-Run Accidents”). ALSO CAPITALIZE Capitalize the pronoun I and the interjection O (but not “oh,” unless it is the first word of a sentence. Capitalize the first word of every sentence and the first word of directly quoted speech. (The reply is always, “Not now.”) EXAMPLES DO CAPITALIZE: Dr. Sigmund Freud, the War of 1812, Yale University, the U.S. Navy, the West, Associated Students, Parkinson’s Disease. DO NOT CAPITALIZE: my doctor, the doctor, a space war in 2010, a university like Yale, a strong navy, go west, an association for students, cold, flu, bronchitis.

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