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How to Use Caps in Nouns

Nouns are a basic and essential part of speech as well as in writing. Defined as a person, place, thing or idea, nouns appear quite often throughout sentences. Capitalize nouns in several situations including when the noun is a proper noun. Use proper nouns when describing a specific person, place, thing or idea. Some items, like a person's name, day of the week, specific football team or country name are always capitalized while titles are not always capitalized.

Instructions

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      Use capital letters when writing out a proper noun. Proper nouns are nouns that describe an organization, person or place which has a specific name or title like Golden Gate Bridge, Atlantic Ocean or Martin.

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      Begin a noun with a capital letter if it is naming a specific work, person or company. Examples include books like "To Kill a Mockingbird," films like "Citizen Kane" and song titles like "Hey Jude." Begin a noun with a capital letter if it is naming something. Examples include: the name of a person (Brett) and a company's name (IBM or Apple.)

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      Use a capital letter for proper geographical nouns. Examples include a city (Los Angeles), a country (United States) and a state (California.)

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      Start a noun with a capital letter for calendar items like the days of the week (Monday), the months of the year (February) and holidays (Christmas).

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      Use a capital letter on nouns that are part of a group (Republicans, Japanese, Los Angeles Dodgers), are figures in religion (God, Buddha, Bible) or describe a specific language or nationality (Greek, English).

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      Capitalize a noun when it is the beginning of a sentence. For example: We walked to the store. "We" isn't usually capitalized but since it is at the beginning of a sentence, it is in this case.

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      Make sure the pronoun "I" is always capitalized. For example: So, I walked the street.

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      Capitalize a noun when it is describing a title and the person. For example: President George Washington. Do not capitalize a title when it comes after the person's name. For example: George Washington was president.

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      Quote something and capitalize the first word if it is a noun. For example: He said, "Bricks were made to build the house."

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