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A Little Help with Capitals

angel_tristan0409 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:07:10 GMT

A Little Help with Capitals

This handout lists some guidelines for capitalization. If you have a question about whether a specific word should be capitalized that doesn't fit under one of these rules, try checking a dictionary to see if the word is capitalized there.

Use capital letters in the following ways:

The first words of a sentence

When he tells a joke, he sometimes forgets the punch line.

The pronoun "I"

The last time I visited Atlanta was several years ago.

Proper nouns (the names of specific people, places, organizations, and sometimes things)

Worrill Fabrication Company

Golden Gate Bridge

Supreme Court

Livingston, Missouri

Atlantic Ocean

Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Family relationships (when used as proper names)

I sent a thank-you note to Aunt Abigail, but not to my other aunts.

Here is a present I bought for Mother.

Did you buy a present for your mother?

The names of God, specific deities, religious figures, and holy books

God the Father

the Virgin Mary

the Bible

the Greek gods

Moses

Shiva

Buddha

Zeus

Exception: Do not capitalize the non-specific use of the word "god."

The word "polytheistic" means the worship of more than one god.

Titles preceding names, but not titles that follow names

She worked as the assistant to Mayor Hanolovi.

I was able to interview Miriam Moss, mayor of Littonville.

Directions that are names (North, South, East, and West when used as sections of the country, but not as compass directions)

The Patels have moved to the Southwest.

Jim's house is two miles north of Otterbein.

The days of the week, the months of the year, and holidays (but not the seasons used generally)

Halloween

October

Friday

winter

spring

fall

Exception: Seasons are capitalized when used in a title.

The Fall 1999 semester

The names of countries, nationalities, and specific languages

Costa Rica

Spanish

French

English

The first word in a sentence that is a direct quote

Emerson once said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

The major words in the titles of books, articles, and songs (but not short prepositions or the articles "the," "a," or "an," if they are not the first word of the title)

One of Jerry's favorite books is The Catcher in the Rye.

Members of national, political, racial, social, civic, and athletic groups

Green Bay Packers

African-Americans

Anti-Semitic

Democrats

Friends of the Wilderness

Chinese

Periods and events (but not century numbers)

Victorian Era

Great Depression

Constitutional Convention

sixteenth century

Trademarks

Pepsi

Honda

IBM

Microsoft Word

Words and abbreviations of specific names (but not names of things that came from specific things but are now general types)

Freudian

NBC

pasteurize

french fries

italics

Re: Decision making

phamthephong100 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:27:17 GMT

Hello ngngmaiphuong, I can not find and correct all the mistakes in your essay (maybe some of my corrections are not correct), however I hope this can help

The notion of making decision alone is untenable and the one that I definitely ~~don't~~ do not rely on. A good decision needs a broad knowledge ~~to make~~ to be made, while one person's ability is limited. In my opinion, a momentous decision, the one that could affect your life, deserves rigorous scrutiny of not just an individual but of many people.

The first and blatant advantage of not making decision alone is the more possibility that decision to succeed. This could be exemplified by my own experience. In Vietnam, students who attend to secondary schools need to decide whether science or art they will pursue. At first, I thought that science is tedious; my parents, however, realize the superior importance of science in contemporary society so they ~~help~~ helped me to change my perception. I finally ~~to choose~~ chose science as my major, and after a long process of study, I now could say that I will never regret because of that decision. I am, in fact, proud of it. Without ~~others~~' my parents' help ~~to make~~ in making decision, I might choose the wrong way.

After a lot of decision making processes in life, no need to say, a lot of people could feel the burden while trying to decide something. Just the idea ~~that~~ of wrong decisions would ruin the one's future can make anyone of us hesitate to decide anything, and the veritable failure really comes, that fault will linger over one's mind forever. With others' help, everything will be different. The more people help us to decide, the fewer burdens we have.

Many important opportunities need expeditious decision. How long does it take for an individual to make a decision? Of course ~~it's~~ it is longer than the time of some people's work. (What do you mean?)
If ~~one~~ a person wants to be successful in this competitive world, he or she (may) need(s) others' help to make not only a fast decision but also a good one. More people would accelerate the decision making process. I ~~don't~~ do not mean that individual's work is ineffective, but it's less expeditious in a prodigious number of cases.

The fact that we have been building this world together is a striking evident for the effectiveness of many people's work. With others' help, the decision making process become not only effective but also faster (as well).

Is this an academic essay? If yes:
You should avoid personal pronoun as much as possible and NO abbreviation and NO opinion. And I can "smell" some kind of Vietnamese English here ( Am i right? -I wonder), it means you translate some word from Vietnamese into English, the result is some of your sentences are not very natural.
Did you use a dictionary? I can see a wide variety of vocabulary here,he he he.

Re: can someone help me edit my essays?

phamthephong100 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:32:41 GMT

Hello Davidzhaos, I can not find and correct all the mistake in your essay, i hope this can help

In US today, one of the most significant issues we are facing is the automobile. Currently automobile produces the second largest amount of CO2 gas, the leading cause of environment damage and the cause of oil crisis we are experiencing today. It is said that necessity is the mother of invention. Well, one of today greatest necessities is the need to replace conventional gasoline automobile and as result I would like to invent an eclectic power car that just do that. By using electricity rather than gasoline, my new electric automobile will solve both the environment problems and oil crisis cause by conventional automobile.

But first of all, what is my new electric automobile? It is a conventional design compact car that will use electricity rather than gasoline to power itself. This new car will feature four 36 by 24 inches solar cells located on the roof of the it that will allow the car to convert sunlight into electric power. It will also feature a 36 by 24 by 24 inches lead-acid battery located in the retractable hardtop of the car to store power. This new car will replace the conventional gasoline engine with an all new electric power engine that will use the electric energy stored in the lead-acid battery to power the itself. During day time this car will use energy from solar cells to power itself and during night time or in other conditions such as rain where the car does not have access to sunlight, it will rely on the energy store in its lead-acid battery to power its engine. Last of all, ~~this new vehicle will also has plug-in battery ability that will allow the car's acid-lead baterry to be recharge by connecting a plug into power source such a electric power grid~~ The battery of this new vehicle will be rechargeable so it can be connected to an eclectric power source for recharging.

One of the major advantages of my new electric automobile over conventional automobile is ~~environment friendly~~ being friendly to environment. Although today cars allow us to travel faster and further, they also produce 1.5 billion tons of CO2 annually. CO2 is one of the major threats to our environment today. When this insidious gas is (emission) released from the cars, it can mix with cloud and create acidic rain. Acidic rain is extremely harmful as it can destroy farmlands and damage city's buildings. ~~Worse~~ More over, the increase of CO2 gas in atmosphere can also increase the greenhouse effects, which trap heat absorbed from sun. This increase in heat can lead to global warming, a serious threat to our ~~survival~~ lives. Global warming can melt ice in both North and South poles that will raise ocean level and consume our land. It can also increase in the intensity of extreme weather such as cyclone and increased pace of desertification that degrade land into desert. Overall CO2 can cause major damages to our environment that will make Earth unsuitable to human. As result by replacing conventional gasoline automobile with my electric automobile, we can stop producing this deadly gas when we drive, thus protecting the environment.

Another threat that results from conventional automobile is the oil crisis we are facing today. Every time we drive our automobile we use gasoline. Not only does this cause CO2 emission that damages the environment, but it also cost us a large amount of money. In US, the average person buys 16 barrels of oil each year, that is $1400 a year! Think of the all the things can be bought with that money and all the money can be saved if we ~~didn't~~ did not waste all that money on oil. Even worse US ~~didn't~~ did not make all the oil it need, as result US has to import 60% of oil. ~~Our~~ The current major supplies of oil of the USA are from Middle East. This is very damage since this makes us depend on foreign oil (your opinion) . If anytime Middle East stop the flow the oil to us, it would be serious damage to our economy such what happen in 1973 oil crisis. By switching to my new eclectic, not only will we save money by stopping buying expensive gasoline, it will also stop USâs dependence on foreign oil. ( not true )

Although nothing is perfect, though progress we make thing closer and closer to perfect. Today gasoline automobile have many ~~faults~~ disadvantages including the environment damage and dependence on oil it cause, thought progress I can invent a new electric car that solve these problems and a more step toward perfect.

P/S: In a academic essay,

You should avoid personal pronoun as much as possible, it should be NO personal pronouns in your essay.

Your should not use abbreviation and NO opinion and don't forget to make sure what information is true and what is false.

More over, I think there are many repetitions of structure, information and word in your essay. This make your essay less interesting.

Grammar Ninja

KWarp — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:28:25 GMT

Grammar Ninja is an educational game where the player identifies parts of speech in rapid succession. Correct answers help you advance; wrong ones blow up in your face. The game is modeled after Brain Age's CalculationsX20 exercise. Grammar Ninja is my final project for my Independent Study in Game Design.

Currently the game is a work in progress and will be completed next week. I'm posting here to find people to stuff the game with grammatically accurate sentences.

You can play the game here (click).
(ultimately all three modes will have 20 questions per run)

Content:
Flash canât accept external data from txt files in the way that I need it, so all the sentences the game uses must be created beforehand. Itâs very easy for anyone to create a sentence:

//Sentences are defined like this
asen000 = new Array(new Word("Joe", "N"), new Word("is", "V"), new Word("hungry.", "ADJ"));

If the formatting confuses you, donât worry, you only need to worry about the stuff between the quotes (ââ). Itâs simplest to illustrate.

new Word("The word you want to include", "The part of speech the word isâ)

The part of speech is an ALL CAPS abbreviation of the word. It MUST BE one of the following:
Noun = N
Verb = V
Pronoun = PRO
Adjective = ADJ
Adverb = ADV
Preposition = PREP
Conjunction = CONJ
Interjection = INT
Article = ART

The number of words in the sentence will be exactly the number of words you put in, separated by commas. To illustrate again:

//separate each word by a comma, keep making as many as you like
//hower it gets unreadable around 35 words
new Array(word, word, word);

I want at least 50 sentences each for the easy, medium, and hard modes, and thereâs no way can do it alone in a week. Please please help me by contributing some sentences!!!

As guidelines
Easy questions have between 2-6 words
Medium questions have between 6-15 words
Hard questions have between 15-30 words

Keep the content appropriate for all ages, quote whatever you want as long as it makes grammatical sense. If you want to add something like â~Ernest Hemmingwayâ make it one big word and label itâs part of speech âNâ. No slurring words (donât, wonât arenât) or whatever it is.

Please be accurate, or at very least review the accuracy of others.

A BIG THANKS to anyone that helps out.

Re: Parts of Speech

Clive — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:26:07 GMT

Hi,

Parts of Speech. In each sentence, write the part of speech above each underlined word. Use the abbreviation listed below.

n. noun pron. Pronoun v. verb adj. Adjective adv. Adverb

Prep. Prepostion conj. conjunction

1. We had grilled steak, baked potatoes, and a fresh tossed salad for dinner.

2. The exhausted hikers quickly set up their tents and went to sleep.

'Exhausted' is an adjective. 'Their' is a possesive adjective.

3. The Japanese gardener pruned the young fruit trees and rose bushes carefully.

'Japanese' is an adjective here.

4. Anthony tried very hard to finish the mystery novel, but he fell asleep.

5. The islandâs tourists quietly watched the glorious sunset until it disappeared

Some of these colours are hard to see, and make this a little confusing to read.

Best wishes, Clive

Parts of Speech

Carlagee — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:08:16 GMT

Can you please check my work and see if I have done it right, if not please help me.

Parts of Speech. In each sentence, write the part of speech above each underlined word. Use the abbreviation listed below.

n. noun pron. Pronoun v. verb adj. Adjective adv. Adverb

Prep. Prepostion conj. conjunction

1. We had grilled steak, baked potatoes, and a fresh tossed salad for dinner.

2. The exhausted hikers quickly set up their tents and went to sleep.

3. The Japanese gardener pruned the young fruit trees and rose bushes carefully.

4. Anthony tried very hard to finish the mystery novel, but he fell asleep.

5. The islandâs tourists quietly watched the glorious sunset until it disappeared

Re: Need ur help ...

Clive — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:18:05 GMT

Hi Raja,

Yes, welcome to the Forum. Please post any questions that we can help you with.

My initial advice about your writing is this. Try to avoid writing in a form that looks like text-messaging. In other words, don't use abbreviations like 's/w engg' or 'ur'. And use normal capitalization at the beginning of a sentence, and for the pronoun 'I'. These are good habits to develop, and they will help you to improve your writing.

Write again. Best wishes, Clive

Study guide.

Matrix4583 — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 02:03:02 GMT

Hey, i'm new here. My name is Tim and I got this forum from a friend of mine. He told me that this might help me with the problem i got. I have a brother that is 16 years old and i'm 23( in the US Army). He needs help with his english. The teacher gave him the study guide, but no answer on it. So i ask him to give the study guide to me and i'll help him with it. Well, since i'm busy soo much on school and my job, it's impossible for me to do this. I was wondering if you have some time and help me with this problem. I really appreciate it. Here's the problem.

Language Art:

A. apostrophe
B. Synonym
C. noun or pronoun
D. quotations mark
E. Adjective
F. verb or verb phrase
G. abbreviation
H. antonyms
I. root word.
J. proper nouns
K. Verb
L. action and linking
M. gerund
N. adverb
O. gender
P. subject
Q. Nomniative, object and possessive
R. Predicate nominative
S. Present, past and future
T. direct object.
U. prepositions
V. appositive
W. Object of a preposition

1.____ The subject of a sentence may be what part of speech?
2.____ States what the subject does, is or has in a sentence.
3.____ Sometimes called the simple predicate
4.____ The main part of a without any affixes.
5.____ Two kinds of a Verb.
6.____ What moddifies noun or pronoun?
7.____ What follow a linking verb or action verb?
8.____ The simple tense of verb.
9.____ Follow a preposition.
10.____ Tells more about another noun.
11.____ Answer "what?" or "whom?"
12.____ who or what the sentences about.
13.____ The three cases of personal pronoun.
14.____ personal pronoun have number, person and what?
15.____ Usually modifies a verb, but can sometimes modify an adjective.
16.____ show relationship between it's object and some other word in a sentence.
17.____ A participle that end in "ing" and functions as a noun.
18.____ needed to form possessive nouns and contractions.
19.____ Capitalized because they are particular person, places, and things.
20.____ A short way of writing a word consisting of some of the letters in the word followed by a period.
21.____ Used to show where the exact word of a speaker begin and end.
22.____ Opposite meaning.
23.____ A word that is similar to another in meaning.

That's it. Hoooha.

Study guide.

Matrix4583 — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:08:35 GMT

Apostrophe

Matress — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:28:11 GMT

Apostrophe ( ' )

The apostrophe is used when leaving out a letter or number in a contraction, e.g. can't, wouldn't.
The apostrophe is used for omitted letters, e.g. rock 'n' roll, and for omitted numbers, e.g. the class of '72, the '20s.
The apostrophe is used for plurals of letter abbreviations with periods and single letters, e.g. p's and q's, two A's and four B's. Plurals of multi-letter combinations and plurals of numerals end in s with no apostrophe, e.g. VIPs, 1000s.
The possessive of singular nouns ending in s, including nouns ending in s, x, z, ch, or sh, is formed by adding 's, e.g. witness's affidavit. However, if the next word begins with s, then add only an apostrophe, e.g. witness' story.
The possessive of singular nouns not ending in s is formed by adding 's, e.g. VIP's seat, baby's food.
The apostrophe follows the s of a word with two sibilant sounds, e.g. Kansas', Moses'.
The apostrophe is added for the possessive of a noun that is plural in form but singular in meaning, e.g. mathematics' formulas.
The apostrophe follows the s for the possessive of plural nouns that end in s, e.g. girls' movies. For the possessive of a plural noun that does not end in s, add 's, e.g. women's rights.
For singular proper nouns, add only an apostrophe for the possessive, e.g. Achilles' heel.
No apostrophe is used for personal pronouns like hers, his, its, mine, ours, theirs, whose, your, yours. Indefinite pronouns require an apostrophe, e.g. one's lover. For other pronouns like another and others, follow the rule for singular and plural, e.g. another's and others'.
For joint possession, the 's is added to the word nearest the object of possession, e.g. Francis and Kucera's book.
The apostrophe is not used in names of organizations unless actually part of the legal name. The apostrophe is not used in plurals of numerals or multiple-letter combinations

Possessives

The possessive case of most nouns is formed by adding an apostrophe or an apostrophe and 's'.

Possessive for singular and plurals nouns not ending in an S or Z sound are formed by adding 's. Examples: horse's, alumni's
Possessive of singular nouns ending in an S or Z sound are usually formed by adding 's, e.g. hostess's, unless the next word begins with an S or Z sound.
Possessive of plural nouns ending in an S or Z sound are formed by adding only an apostrophe, e.g. churches'.
Possessive of plural nouns that are singular in meaning are formed by adding only an apostrophe, e.g. mathematics' rules. This is also true for a plural word in the formal name of a singular entity, e.g. General Motors' profits.
Possessive for noun that is the same in singular and plural - is formed as if it is plural, e.g. two deer's tracks, one corps' mess hall.
Possessive for singular proper noun ending in s - use only an apostrophe, e.g. Achilles' heel.
Possessive for pronouns -- only for a few, such as: another's, others', someone's. There are no separate forms for the possessive for: mine, ours, your, yours, his, hers, its, theirs, whose.
In a phrase: individual possession is shown with an 's added to each noun, e.g. 'Barbara's and Kyle's bicycles'; joint possession is shown by adding an apostrophe or 's to the last noun in the series, e.g. 'Barbara and Kyle's house'.
Be careful of descriptive phrases. Do not add an apostrophe to a word ending in 's' when it is used primarily in a descriptive sense, e.g. citizens band radio, writers guide.
An inanimate object can have a possessive use. It is treated in a personified sense, e.g. Time's cover.

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Posted: Jun 27, 8:14 PM [GMT 1]
Post Subject: Re: Proper use of the apostrophe (Guest:clreilly)
Post author: Jason13_32

The apostrophe is used for two things only:

To signify two words joined: What is = What's

To signify possesion, here's the confussion:

Your bar would be "Harper's Bar" because there's only one "Harper".

If you were all nuns it would be "Nuns' Bar" - Many nuns - the apostrophe is used after the "s"

or

"At the zoo, the children were most interested in seeing the lions' den." - Many lions