1. Capitalization & Punctuating Titles

2. Proper Nouns / Names Walmart Target John Deere Mike John Alejandro

3. Proper Adjectives
What’s that you ask? Well here is one example let me ask you a question, What type of food do you want for dinner?
Italian? Mexican? Chinese?
These are proper adjectives, they describe a very specific type of food. It’s not hot food or good food, those adjectives don’t merit a capital letter.
Other examples:
British Politian
Shakespearian play
Renaissance man

4. Geographic Names: Towns, Cities Counties States Countries Islands
Bodies of Water
Forests
Parks
Streets
Highways
Mountains
Continents
Regions

5. Names of organizations, institutions, and government bodies.
Teams: Ravens, Broncos, etc. Organizations: Boy Scouts of America Institutions: Weber State Government Bodies: Federal Bureau of Investigation

6. Names of historical events, periods, holidays and calendar events
Historical Events: The Civil War
Historical Periods: The Industrial Revolution
Holidays: Christmas
Days: Monday
Months: January
Calendar Events: Easter

7. Names of religions and their followers, holy days, sacred writings, specific deities
Religions: Catholic
Followers: Muslims
Holy Days: Easter
Celebrations: Passover
Sacred Writings: The Bible
Specific Deities: Yahweh

8. Monuments, memorials, awards
Monuments: The Grand Canyon
Memorials: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Awards: The Heisman Trophy

9. Names of businesses and brand names of business products
Business: Ford
Brand Name: American Eagle
Don’t confuse a logo with proper capitalization!
addidas
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY
etc

10. Person’s title when it comes before the name
Title: Doctor…
Person: Mrs. Mr. etc.
Teacher: Professor…

11. A word showing familial relationship When the word is used before or in place of a person’s name
Uncle Mike
Aunt Tia
Or in place of their name: “Hey, Auntie, would you like more mashed potatoes?”

12. The first and last and all important words in titles and subtitles
Books: Hatchet
Magazines: Teen Beat
Newspapers: The Enquirer
Poems: The Road Less Traveled
Short Stories: The Cask of Amontillado
Historical Documents: The Declaration of Independence
Movies
Television series
Works of Art
Musical Works
Plays
Comic Strips
Videos
Video Games
CD’s

13. Lastly, be sure to capitalize:
The first word in a sentence.
The pronoun “I”
The contraction “I’m”
The first word in the salutation and closing of a letter

14. Punctuating Titles
Italicize (or underline when writing) the titles of magazines, books, newspapers, academic journals, films, television shows, long poems, plays, operas, musical albums, works of art, websites.
The names of specific spacecraft, aircraft, ships, and trains are treated like titles: they should be italicized. You don't need to italicizebrand names like Boeing or Amtrak.
Put in quotes the titles of specific articles, television episodes, essays