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 Using Capital Letters

You use capital letters...

1. at the start of a sentence

a. Bali is an Indonesian Island.
b. It is a lovely day.

2. with proper nouns (particular persons, places and things):

a. Her name is Mary.
b. She lives in Spain.
c. She was born on Tuesday the sixth of June, 1998. She lives at 10 Greenstoke Avenue, Newbay, Bristol.

3. with adjectives that come from proper nouns

a. They live in a Georgian house.
b. He loved Japanese films.

4. for the first and all of the main words in titles

a. The Great Gatsby
b. The Queen of England
c. The Heart of Darkness
d. The University of Delaware
e. The Second World War

5. For the pronoun 'I'

a. In the future I hope that I will be able to visit Turkey.



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