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CAPIT AL LET TERS

The English alphabet originally only had
• Unlike other pronouns, such as capital letters. Lowercase letters were
you, he, she, it, and them, I is always
spelled with a capital letter. introduced in the eighth century ce.

Identifying when to
use capital letters my friend pia traveled to france on thursday.
It’s important to use capital letters
correctly so it’s clear where one
sentence ends and another begins. A sentence must begin
with a capital letter.
Proper nouns must also be capitalized,
so that the names of people or places,
Names of people always
or expressions of time, can be easily
have a capital letter.
distinguished from other common things.
Names of countries begin
with a capital letter.

Days of the week always
All the capital letters begin with a capital letter.
are used correctly here.

People and places
Proper nouns, such as the names A city requires a capital letter. Both parts are capitalized
of people or places, always begin For cities with two parts, both as they form the name of
with a capital letter. A capital words are capitalized. a place of business.
letter is also required when
describing a specific place,
such as “the South,” which may The name of a person This is the name of a place,
refer to the southern region of a must be capitalized. so it is capitalized.
country. However, capital letters
are not required when indicating
a general direction, as in “north
of the shopping center.” Both parts of this specific Names of continents are capitalized.
river name are capitalized.