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All notes and practice should be in the grammar
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section of your notebook.
PROPER NOUNS
A proper noun names a
specific person, place
or thing.
Martha, March, English, Newell
Hospital, Chevrolet, Greek, Clearview
Middle School, President Washington,
New Jersey
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PROPER ADJECTIVES
A proper adjective
describes a specific
person, place or thing.
English class, Newell Hospital, Chevrolet
cars, Greek myths, Clearview Middle
School, President Washington, Reese’s
candy
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Capitalizing sentences,
quotations, and letter parts
RULE #1
Capitalize the first
word of a sentence.
Pioneers pushed the American
frontier westward.
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RULE #2
Capitalize the first word of a
direct quotation that is a
complete sentence.
Tyrone said, “The pioneers acted
very bravely.”
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RULE #3
When a quoted sentence is
interrupted by explanatory words,
such as “she said”, do not begin
the second part of the sentence
with a capital letter.
“They left their homes,” said Lee,
“so they could improve their
lives.”
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RULE #3 continued
Even if the quotation has two parts,
anything that follows an end
punctuation mark, like a period, is
capitalized.
“Many pioneers went west for the
rich farmland,” said Maria.
“They also wanted to build new
homes.”
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RULE #4
Do not capitalize an indirect quotation.
An indirect quotation does not repeat a
person’s exact words and does not
appear in quotation marks. It is often
introduced by the word that.
Tanya read that many pioneers
traveled in Conestoga wagons.
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RULE #5
Exercise 7, pp. 374-375
Capitalize the first word in the
salutation and closing of a letter.
Capitalize the title and name of the
person addressed.
Dear Mrs. Johnson,
Dear friend,
Yours truly,
Sincerely,
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Capitalizing people’s
names and titles
Rule #1
Capitalize the names of people and
the initials that stand for their
names.
Meriwether Lewis
Susan B. Anthony
J. F. Cooper
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Rule #2
Capitalize a title or an abbreviation
of a title when it comes before a
person’s name or when it is used
instead of a name.
General Lee
Sen. John Glenn
Mrs. Adams
Did Lieutenant Clark say, “Yes,
Captain, I’ll go with you’?
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Rule #2 continued
Do not capitalize a title that follows
a person’s name or is used as a
common noun.
Clark himself was later promoted to
captain.
Thomas Jefferson, then president,
planned the expedition.
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Rule #3
Capitalize the names and
abbreviations of academic degrees
that follow a person’s name.
Capitalize Jr. and Sr.
Albert Schweitzer, M.D.
Stephen Hawking, Ph.D.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Rule #4
Capitalize words that show family
relationships when used as titles or
as substitutes for a person’s name.
In 1960 Dad retraced the steps of
Lewis and Clark.
He was accompanied by Uncle Bill
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Rule #4 continued
Exercise 9, p. 376
**Do not capitalize words that show
family relationships when they
follow a possessive noun or pronoun.
Possessive pronoun
Sharon’s (Her) aunt Janet wrote an
article about the trip.
possessive noun
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Rule #5
Always capitalize the pronoun I (I’d,
I’ll, I’m).
Lunch is the subject I like best. Ha!
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Capitalizing place names
rule #1
Capitalize the names of
cities, counties, states,
countries, and continents.
Houston
Iowa
Japan
Gloucester County
Eurpoe
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Capitalizing place names
rule #2
Capitalize the names of
bodies of water and
geographical features.
Mediterranean Sea Gulf of Mexico
Niagara Falls
Atlantic Ocean
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Capitalizing place names
rule #3
Capitalize the names of
sections of the country.
Midwest
New England
the Far West
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Capitalizing place names
rule #4
Capitalize compass points
when they refer to a
specific section of the
country.
the West Coast
the North
the Southeast
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Capitalizing place names
rule #4 continued
Do not capitalize compass points
when they indicate direction.
Los Angeles is south of San Francisco.
Do not capitalize adjectives derived
from words indicating direction.
easterly wind
western Texas
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Capitalizing place names
rule #5 continued
Capitalize the names of streets and
highways.
Monroe Street
Route 66
Mercury Boulevard
Candy Avenue
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Capitalizing place names
rule #6 continued
Capitalize the names of buildings,
bridges, and monuments.
Chrysler Building
Brooklyn Bridge
Washington Monument
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Capitalizing place names
rule #7 continued
Exercise 15, p. 381-2
Capitalize the names of celestial
bodies.
Pluto
North Star
the Milky Way
Earth (earth=dirt=land= soil)
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Capitalizing other proper
nouns and adjectives
Rule #1
Capitalize the names of clubs,
organizations, businesses,
institutions, and political parties.
Data Corporation
Boy Scouts
Pepsi Bottling Corp.
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Rule #2
Capitalize brand names but not
the nouns following them.
Jiff peanut butter
Windex cleaning fluid
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Rule #3
Exercise 5, p. 388
Capitalize the names of important
historical events, periods of time,
and documents.
Battle of Yorktown
Bronze Age
Bill of Rights
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Rule #4
Capitalize names of days of the
week, months of the year, and
holidays. Do not capitalize names
of the seasons.
Thursday
April
Memorial Day
summer
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Rule #5
Do exercise 17, p. 383
Do exercise 18, p. 384
Capitalize the first word, the last word,
and all important words in the title of a
book, play, short story, poem, essay,
article, film television series, song,
magazine, newspaper, and chapter of a
book.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“The Raven”
The Help
The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus”
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SO, YOU
CAPITALIZE
IMPORTANT WORDS IN
TITLES?
What exactly does that mean? What
makes one word more important than
another?
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Draw a house on your paper:
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Rule #6
Capitalize the names of ethnic groups,
nationalities, and languages.
Asian
Latino
German
Spanish
English
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Rule #7
Do exercise 17, p. 383
Do exercise 18, p. 384
Capitalize proper adjectives that are
formed from the names of ethnic groups
and nationalities. There are exceptions
to the rule:
Asian languages
Italian food
English authors
french dressing china cabinet
african violet
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