1. Capitalization
Unit 20

2. Capitalization Pre-Test
John f. Kennedy was one of the Nation’s most beloved presidents.
hannah looked up at the big dipper and located the star Polaris.
Deepak was born in benares, a city holy to the Hindus of india.
“Dad,” asked Tomás, “why doesn’t julio’s dad ever come to our baseball games?”
Linda’s mother, who lived in florida at the time, witnessed the explosion of the challenger spacecraft.

3. Rules: Capitalize the first word of every sentence.
Capitalize the first word of a direct quotation.
Capitalize the first word of a complete sentence contained by parenthesis.
(Tom lost his socks.)
The pronoun “I”

4. Rules:
Proper nouns.
James Jones
Michael Jackson

5. Rules: Titles before a name President Bush General Jones Dr. Williams
Sgt. Baker
Senator Marks

6. Rules:
Capitalize the word “president” when referring to the president and used in place of a name.
The President lives in the White House.
George Washington was the first president.

7. Rules:
Capitalize the names of family relationships when used with or in place of a proper name.
I saw Mom this morning.
I heard Uncle Jim got arrested.
Do not capitalize when preceded by a possessive pronoun.
My dad is a fireman

8. Rules: Ethnic groups, national groups, languages Japanese Spanish
French

9. Rules:
Organizations, institutions, political parties and their members, and firms
Salvation Army
Black Congressional Caucus
Democratic Party
Auburn University
United Steel, Inc.

10. Rules: Monuments, bridges, buildings, and other structures
Washington Monument
Lincoln Memorial
Golden Gate Bridge
Hoover Dam
Gordon Person’s Building
Cramton Bowl

11. Rules:
Trade names
Honda
Nike
Polo
Baby Phat
Tylenol
Axe

12. Rules: Documents, awards, laws Magna Carta Declaration of Independence
13th Amendment
Heisman Trophy
Grammy Award
Outland Trophy

13. Rules: Geographical terms North America Goat Hill Arctic Ocean
Dead Sea
Lake Martin
Montgomery
Southlawn

14. Rules: Planets, stars, etc… Pluto Jupiter Milky Way Galaxy Sagittarius
Big Dipper

15. Rules: Compass points when they refer to a place, not a direction.
Birds fly south for the winter.
I live in the South.

16. Rules: Ships, planes, trains, spacecrafts USS Roosevelt Discovery
Apollo 13
Orient Express

17. Rules: Historical events, eras, and calendar items Civil War
The Great Depression
Harlem Renaissance
Age of Wisdom
August
Friday

18. Rules: Religious terms Bible Jesus Allah Talmud Islam Buddha Easter
Hanukkah
Lutheran

19. Rules:
School courses
French
Spanish
Math 101
History 312

20. Rules: Titles of works Huckleberry Finn The Crucible Menace to Society
Birmingham News
New York Times
How John Boscoe Outsung the Devil
The Devil and Tom Walker