Today is our topic of discussion – Introduction and Definition

Introduction and Definition

 

 

Introduction and Definition

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

Examples:

a. Binoy lives in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

b. I got up early in the morning. Then I went to the market.

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:

a. Radhika received a gift from the President of Bangladesh.

b. This is a public place and you should behave yourselves.

RULE 2:

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

Example:

a. I invited him to come to my house.

b. I do not know him but I will receive him from the airport.

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. Some examples are given below:

• I will attend that conference in the fall.
• I have registered for three classes for Spring Semester 2013.
• We celebrate Valentine’s Day on 14 February.

RULE 5:

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

Example:

“Texas Longhorns”, “Libertarians”. “Chinese” etc.

RULE 6:

Capitalize words derived from proper nouns. For example: Binoy loves English and math. Here English is capitalized because it comes from the proper noun England, but math does not come from mathland. That means math does not refer to any proper noun rather it is merely a subject.

 

 

RULE 8:

Capitalize the names of specific course titles. For example: Ron likes World History.