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Use of capital letters - English lesson

Where should a capital letter be used?

➡️ I. The first word of a sentence begins with a capital letter.

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° The personal pronoun 'I' is always capitalized, wherever it is placed.

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° Surnames and first names begin with a capital letter:

Charles Spencer Chaplin is better known as Charlie Chaplin.

on écrira aussi : My dog is named Rusty and my cat Daisy.

➡️ 4°Capital letters are used for the names of cities, states, countries, continents, and geographical areas.

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° Capitalize titles when they precede a name or when addressing the person.

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°Nouns and adjectives of nationality are always capitalized:

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° The names of days, months, and holidays are capitalized. (This is not the case for seasons.)

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 Thursday, December 25th 2025)

In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.

8° Other cases...

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

---Capitalize the first and last words of a title (book, song, film)
and all other words, except for:
a, an, the, and conjunctions and prepositions of 4 letters or fewer
The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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This test is case-sensitive. Be careful with Uppercase (CAPITAL) letters and lowercase (small) letters.

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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