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Overview:<\/strong>
\nCapitalizing words within a sentence or title alerts readers to the importance of those words.\u00a0 Besides the first word beginning a sentence, proper nouns, special events, some awards, specific dates, and holidays are capitalized.\u00a0 Key words are capitalized within titles of works.<\/p>\n

What Are Some General Rules?<\/strong>
\nThe first word of any type of sentence is always capitalized.\u00a0 In addition, the first word is capitalized at the beginning of a direct quotation.\u00a0 Jill asked, “Will you be going home during break?”\u00a0 However, if the direct quotation is interrupted, the words following the second set of quotation marks are not.\u00a0 “I don’t know,” she replied, “because it depends on when I can leave work.”<\/p>\n

What About Proper Nouns?<\/strong>
\nProper nouns, such as the names of people, specific places, and events, are always capitalized, no matter where they occur in the sentence.\u00a0 Robert and Scott planted the trees along the waterfront.\u00a0 They saw the exhibits at the Museum of Flight.\u00a0 We went to the fireworks show at Lake Union last Fourth of July.<\/p>\n

What About Proper Adjectives?<\/strong>
\nProper adjectives are either formed from proper nouns, or proper nouns themselves are used as adjectives.\u00a0 In that case, the proper adjective is capitalized but the common noun modified is not.\u00a0 We studied the Shakespearean sonnets in English class.\u00a0 Did you meet the Russian exchange student?\u00a0 When did the first European settlers arrive?<\/p>\n

What About Titles of Works?<\/strong>
\nWithin titles of books, periodicals, poems, stories, articles, plays, paintings, and music, the first word in the title, key words, and verbs are capitalized.\u00a0 Did you ever read To the Lighthouse<\/em>?\u00a0 That article was published in The New York Review of Books<\/em>.\u00a0 One of Van Gogh’s best-known paintings is Starry Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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