Capital letters needed?

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Pucca

#328937 Tue, 13 Feb 07 11:52 PM

I don't really know where to post this. It's not a grammar question nether a vocabulary in my opinion..

Well, should we use a capital letter after a question mark or an exclamation mark? This question came to my mind in a sudden when I was writing a post... Thinking [*-)]

...I know, I know..it's a stupid question... Sad [:(]

but I've never known that, well, maybe it's like Spanish and there is no need of capital letters after the marks...

Thank you in advance!

Pucca

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nona the brit

#328938 Tue, 13 Feb 07 11:53 PM

YEs, those count as the close of a sentence, so the next word starts a new sentence with a capital letter.

nona the brit

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Capital letters

Clive

#328940 Tue, 13 Feb 07 11:55 PM

Hi,

should we use a capital letter after a question mark or an exclamation mark?

Yes. These things mark the end of a sentence, and thus you need to start a new sentence.

Best wishes, Clive

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Capital letters, Exclamation marks, Question marks

Pucca

#328948 Wed, 14 Feb 07 12:02 AM

You are all great! Smile [:)]

Oh, oh..I don't know what I was thinking about..!Maybe it's that I haven't slept these days..well, I just realised that in Spanish there is no need to use capital letters after ":" and not after exclamation marks or question marks! I don't know how it is called in English. And my next question is..is capital needed after ":" aswell? Thinking [8-)]