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Re: comma and capitalization

Grammar Geek — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:16:37 GMT

1. If the quoted material is an exact quote, then keep the capital letter to start it. However, in your example, the ? belongs inside the quotation marks. The ? goes with the question.

2. No, this should not be capitalized. It's a common noun.

EDIT: Oops - I somehow missed that it was about commas, not capitals. Sorry, and thanks Philip for not being as blind as I was!

Re: Correct or Not

Eimai_Anglos — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:42:56 GMT

"why was late reply" is not a sentence. It has no meaning. In English a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark (. ; : ? !)

In addition, you seem to have omitted a definite or indefinite article or a possessive pronoun and mixed up the word order.

"Why was his reply late?"

"Why was the reply late?"

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: article or no article and why

Clive — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:11:05 GMT

Hi,

Please tell me if the article is needed. Please tell me the reason for your decision if possible. I think you can look this in two ways: one is, a quoted content, ie, one in quotation marks, sort of an countable noun and treat as such and the other is a word in quotes to denote an unusal use of the phrase "Big-button Phone." -- but then, capital letters seem to make it a proper noun.

Is looking this in two ways as shown above a wrong way to approach this? What went wrong if it is wrong? Confused.

To help those who can't see well, we have designed a "Big-button Phone."

If it's just an unusual use of the phrase, don't use capitals.
To help those who can't see well, we have designed a "big-button phone."
However, this doesn't seem to me like a very unusual use, so why not just omit the quotation marks?
To help those who can't see well, we have designed a big-button phone. (or just say a phone with big buttons.)

If it's a proper name, eg of a product, say
To help those who can't see well, we have designed the "Big-button Phone."

Best wishes, Clive

article or no article and why

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:31:26 GMT

Hi,
Please tell me if the article is needed. Please tell me the reason for your decision if possible. I think you can look this in two ways: one is, a quoted content, ie, one in quotation marks, sort of an countable noun and treat as such and the other is a word in quotes to denote an unusal use of the phrase "Big-button Phone." -- but then, capital letters seem to make it a proper noun.

Is looking this in two ways as shown above a wrong way to approach this? What went wrong if it is wrong? Confused.

To help those who can't see well, we have designed a "Big-button Phone."

Re: klÅ

Huevos — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:40:33 GMT

Try using punctuation, writing in sentences and using capital letters for proper nouns and at the start of sentences. By the way you didn't ask a question.

Re: I have been waiting for you. You are the only...

Huevos — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:09:14 GMT

It's not a messenger list, it's your Messenger contacts list. Note, Messenger is a proper noun, hence the capital letter.

Re: proper noun

Yoong Liat — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:55:55 GMT

hanuman_2000

Hello,

A proper noun is a specific name of a place , a person, or a thing.

For instance take a name like "Jhon". There may hundreds of "Jhon". (John)

How this "John" is a specific person?

A proper noun has to start with a capital letter. Hence 'John' is a proper noun. That doesn't mean that another person cannot be called John.

Other examples of proper nouns are England, English, America, Americans, Mercedes, BMW, etc.

Re: sports day

Avangi — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:05:20 GMT

Hi Vin, Yes, that's what I mean.

I note your optional article in example (a). If "Sports Day" is treated as a proper noun, as the capital letters suggest, you would not use an article. It would be like saying, "Last Friday was a Christmas."

Best wishes, - A.

Re: proper name

Believer — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:55:26 GMT

Thank you, CB, for taking time to answer my question.

I thought I was looking at an example where no adjective is involved but that has only a proper name.

What is the justification for the placement of an article here?

Please follow a Recommended List of Proper Behavior.

To me, the words "Recommended List of Proper Behavior" are a proper noun and like an original example, which is "a Korean Food Consumption Table," all the words in capital letters are part of a proper noun (eventhough, I think you have considered 'Korean' to be an adjective).

Search results for 'tag:Capital letters tag:Nouns' matching tags 'Capital letters' and 'Nouns'

Re: comma and capitalization

Re: Correct or Not

A Little Help with Capitals

A Little Help with Capitals

Re: article or no article and why

article or no article and why

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Re: I have been waiting for you. You are the only...

Re: proper noun

Re: sports day

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