By Capital letters, Capitalisation

"Air of destiny" = his supreme self-assurance and confidenceWithout more context, it is not possible to be absolute as to why "Dog" is spelled with a capital letter. What is the background to the sentence? p.s. I have found the source. The philosopher Diogenes is living in...

I know that generally no capital letter is required. My question was is there any situation where you COULD use a capital letter on physicist?

Hi all.I'm wondering if there are any siutations other than the beginning of a sentence where you could capitalise the word Physicist. For example, used in the sentence 'I am a physicist'. Is there any place it could be used with a capital letter?Thanks in advance!

Yankee wrote:Internal Police Whistleblowers? Why the capitalization? Is that a book or a singing group or something? If it's the uncapitalized sort of internal police whistleblowers you mean, I'm glad there are some people who have the courage to be whistleblowers. Is that a joke or...

I've been doing a bit of research re: capitalisation of words in grammar books and articles on the internet. So far, I've found that, within a sentence, capital letters are used in eight places: 1. At the start of a sentence2. ‘I’ must always be capitalised3. People’s names and titles (Mr John...

And please don't use CAPS. It is seen as shouting. I wasn't shouting. I was emphasising. So far I've been using capital letters for some of my sentences to emphasise my point. No other members have said that I was shouting. Is there a rule in this forum which forbids capitalisation? The...

Hi Milky I wrote: "If you want to mean that they are still getting the right nourishment, the sentence should be "Since childhood they have got the right nourishment." You say: Try "the sentence could be...". You can use either the progressive or the simple form to indicate a continuing...

From "A Grammar of Contemporary English", by R. Quirk et al. Both question and exclamation mark exclude the use of other separation punctuation and have the value of a period inasmuch as what follows begins with the capitalisation of a new sentence. But when they co-ocur with the end of...