Capitalization Rules 1. Capitalize the names of: organizations National Junior Honors Society Haltom City Chamber of Commerce Student Council Nationalities and Languages: Chinese, Guatemalan 2. Abbreviations (a shortened form of a word or phrase) Austin, TX Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Mrs. Meinke, Mr. Odum, Ms. Newhouse

Capitalization Rules 3. Acronyms (an abbreviation that takes one or more letters from each word) NASA NRMS CHAMPSerena Sanchez, M.D. 4. Initials E.B. White T.A. MeinkeGeorge W. Bush 5. In dialogue, the first letter of a sentence is capitalized. “I’m ready,” Tamika said. “Let’s go win this race!” HOWEVER, If a sentence is continued in dialogue, it is lower-cased. “I’m ready,” Tamika said, “to win this race!”

Sentence Scavenger Hunt Number your journal #1-10 (skip lines, please!) Choose a sentence to stand at around the room. Write that sentence down in your journal (Notes section). Make sure to correct all capitalization and punctuation errors as you are writing. Work quickly so you can write down ALL the sentences!! You will be graded and for every sentence NOT corrected, you will lose 10 points! (You should be WORKING not talking.)

NOTES

Capitalization Rules 1. Capitalize the names of: _________________________ National Junior Honors Society Haltom City Chamber of Commerce Student Council Nationalities and Languages: Chinese, Guatemalan 2. ____________________ (a shortened form of a word or phrase) Austin, TX Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Mrs. Meinke, Mr. Odum, Ms. Newhouse

Capitalization Rules 3. _________________________ (an abbreviation that takes one or more letters from each word) NASA NRMS CHAMPSerena Sanchez, M.D. 4. ____________________________ E.B. White T.A. MeinkeGeorge W. Bush 5. In dialogue, _________________________ is capitalized. “I’m ready,” Tamika said. “Let’s go win this race!” HOWEVER, If a sentence is continued in dialogue, it is __________________. “I’m ready,” Tamika said, “to win this race!”