Capital Letters

It is important to know which words to capitalise in your writing. Here's a list of the types of words that we need to capitalise in English.

1. Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun 'I':

2. Use a capital letter to begin a sentence or to begin speech:

3. Use capital letters for many abbreviations and acronyms:

4. Use a capital letter for days of the week, months of the year, holidays:

5. Use a capital letter for countries, languages & nationalities, religions:

6. Use a capital letter for people's names and titles:

7. Use a capital letter for trade-marks and names of companies and other organisations:

8. Use a capital letter for places and monuments:

9. Use a capital letter for names of vehicles like ships, trains and spacecraft:

10. Use a capital letter for titles of books, poems, songs, plays, films etc:

11. Use capital letters (sometimes!) for headings, titles of articles, books etc, and newspaper headlines:

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