When do we Use Capital Letters?

When do we Use Capital Letters?


1. Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun 'I':

• What can I say?
  

2. Use a capital letter to begin a sentence or to begin speech:

• The man arrived. He sat down.
  
• Suddenly Mary asked, "Do you love me?"
  

3. Use capital letters for many abbreviations and acronyms:

• G.M.T. or GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
  
• N.A.T.O. or NATO or Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
  

4. Use a capital letter for days of the week, months of the year, holidays:

• Monday, Tuesday
  
• January, February
  
• Christmas
  
• Armistice Day
  

5. Use a capital letter for countries, languages & nationalities, religions:

• China, France
  
• Japanese, English
  
• Christianity, Buddhism
  

6. Use a capital letter for people's names and titles:

• Anthony, Ram, William Shakespeare
  
• Professor Jones, Dr Smith
  
• Captain Kirk, King Henry VIII
  

7. Use a capital letter for trade-marks and names of companies and other organizations:

• Pepsi Cola, Walkman
  
• Microsoft Corporation, Toyota
  
• the United Nations, the Red Cross
  

8. Use a capital letter for places and monuments:

• London, Paris, the Latin Quarter
  
• the Eiffel Tower, St Paul's Cathedral
  
• Buckingham Palace, the White House
  
• Oxford Street, Fifth Avenue
  
• Jupiter, Mars, Syrius
  
• Asia, the Middle East, the North Pole
  

9. Use a capital letter for names of vehicles like ships, trains and spacecraft:

• the Titanic
  
• the Orient Express, the Flying Scotsman
  
• Challenger 2, the Enterprise
  

10. Use a capital letter for titles of books, poems, songs, plays, films etc:

• War And Peace
  
• If, Futility
  
• Like a Virgin
  
• The Taming of the Shrew
  
• The Lion King, Gone With The Wind
  

11. Use capitals letters (sometimes!) for headings, titles of articles, books etc, and newspaper headlines:

• HOW TO WIN AT POKER
  
• Chapter 2: CLINTON'S EARLY LIFE
  
• LIFE FOUND ON MARS!
  
• MAN BITES DOG