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Punctuation and Capitalization
Are you hooked on commas? Are you possessive about apostrophes? Do you think hyphens look dashing? This category is for questions related to the use of certain marks to separate words into sentences and clauses and capital letters in writing.
6,363 Questions
When do you capitalize the word family?
It should only be capitalized at the beginning of a sentence or in a title.
What punctuation marks comes after the greeting in a business letter?
exclamation poi
nt.
It should be-- Hi!
It is capitalized at the beginning of the sentence and when it is used as part of the proper noun.
Example:
Northern Asia
Do you capitalize coach in the sentence I like coach Jennings?
When it's part of the title, it needs to be capitalized. I like Coach Jennings. In the following sentence you wouldn't need to capitalize coach. My coach is Mr. Jennings.
Do you capitalize the word inn?
When it's part of the proper name of the inn, yes, it would be capitalized.
When do you put a question mark after Good morning?
When you're asking a question. "Are you having a good morning?" But if that's your way of greeting someone, it would be "Good morning."
Why are the words daily mail capitalized?
Daily Mail should only be capitalized when referring to the newspaper title.
When talking about a daily mail delivery, for example, it shouldn't be capitalized.
Does grammar include capitalization?
* The word "I" as in "I am" must always be capitalised. * Names of businesses, people, brands, websites, and anything aside from the common noun should be capitalised. * The first letter of every sentence must be placed one space away from the full-stop, and, yes, must be capitalised. * Letters succeeding punctuation marks are only capitalised after full-stops, not commas, colons, semi-colons, apostrophes, speech marks, or brackets.
Should the word diner always be capitalized?
No it should only be capitalized if it forms part of a title.
Beth is capitalized because it is a name... Grandma Beth? hmm should you capitalize grandma? No i don't think you would
What mark of punctuation means more information to come?
A colon. In colloquial writing a dash (--) may be used, but this is not acceptable in formal writing.
