Use of capital letters

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Use of capital letters

Où mettre une majuscule ?

I°  Le premier mot d'une phrase commence par une lettre majuscule.
          Once upon a time there was a goat who had seven little kids.
          The consumption of the cake makes Alice grow to be 9 feet tall.

2° Le pronom personnel ' I ' est toujours une majuscule où qu'il soit placé

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties
of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream  (Martin Luther King)

3° Les noms et prénoms commencent par une majuscule

Charles Spencer Chaplin is better known as Charlie Chaplin.
on écrira aussi:               My dog is named Rusty and my cat Daisy.

4° On utilise une majuscule pour les noms de villes, états, pays, continents, aires géographiques
     Charlie Chaplin was born in London, he spent many years in the United States of America,
     he died in Vevey, Switzerland (Vevey)
     the Atlantic Ocean / the Sahara desert /   Sacramento is the capital of the State of California

5° On met une majuscule aux titres lorsqu'ils précèdent un nom ou que l'on s'adresse à la personne
    Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
                                   Dr.  Johnson / Mr. Blair /  Mrs. Thomas / the Duke of Edinburgh
                        Have you called for a doctor ?                Is Mary seriously ill, Doctor ?

6° Les noms et adjectifs de nationalité prennent toujours une majuscule

The Danes have a queen, Margrethe II


The Scottish bagpipe is the most familiar throughout the world. The Scots played it to provide music for dancing.
She married a French diplomat on 10 June 1967 .

7° On écrit avec une majuscule les noms des jours, des mois, des fêtes (ce n'est pas le cas pour les saisons)
Sunday is the day of the Sun                 Monday is the day of the Moon
                           Tuesday   /   Wednesday   /   Thursday   /   Friday   /   Saturday ...
January, February, March are the three months of winter
                In April, May, June it is spring
                                is in summer, it is the hottest month of the year
Christmas    (it was on Tuesday, December 25th 2007)
In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November .

8° Quelques autres cas...

        Hyde Park               Empire State Building    Golden Gate Bridge         Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

---on met une majuscule au premier et au dernier mots d'un titre (livre, chanson, film)
       puis à tous les autres mots à l'exception de
       a, an, the, conjonctions et prépositions de 4 lettres ou moins
             The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
             Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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1.
Marco Polo was born on 15, 1254

2. He was a and explorer

3. Marco Polo is the most famous of

4.
He spent 17 years in the service of Kubilaï Khan, and of the largest empire in the world.

5. He had many stories to tell and he told them to a .

6. The usual English title of the book is 'The Travels of Marco Polo' nicknamed .

7.
His account of China inspired other Europeans including .

8.
Some people are not sure of the authenticity of the text. Polo's vocabulary is .

9.
Others say that he doesn't speak of some unmissable aspects of Chinese life: for instance

10.
or the custom of foot-binding which was well established by the 13th century. Marco Polo died on 8, 1324

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