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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
Should the word ministry be capitalized?
At the beginning of the sentence or when it forms part of the proper noun or when it is used in the title.
Example:
Word for the World Christian Ministry
No, you should copy the original format when quoting.
Is grand-daughter capitalized?
At the beginning of a sentence and when it forms part of the proper noun or when it is used as a direct address.
Examples:
Granddaughter Anna
Are you home, Granddaughter?
When do you capitalize the word agreement?
It should only be capitalized if it's at the beginning of a sentence or forms part of a title.
Purgatory should not be capitalized unless it's at the beginning of a sentence.
When writing the title of an article do you capitalize only the first word?
you capitalize the first word and all the important words
Headline.
How do you correctly punctuate the sentence Mr Jones inquired about your health?
Mr. Jones inquired about your health.If dialogue: "Mr. Jones inquired about your health."
What are punctuation characters?
These are characters which are neither letters nor numbers, but are used in sentences to provide structure and make text more readable. These include periods (.), Commas (,), Question marks (?), and exclamation points (!).
The 'L' of the abbreviation Ltd. should be capitalized.
It should only be capitalized if it is the specific, official name of the class.
Should the word tweet be capitalized?
No, it can be used in different ways, but none of which need to be capitalized. It is also usually a verb, not a noun.
The bird said tweet tweet tweet.
Today, I went and left a new tweet on Twitter.
I tweeted all about that yesterday.
The morning was full of sweet tweeting sounds.
The only exceptions would be the beginning of a sentence, or if it is an actual proper noun.
Tweeting on Twitter is my favorite.
Sylvester always wants to catch Tweety Bird.
I went to the new shoe store the other day. It is called Tweet Feet.
The new Tweet Mapper program is interesting.
Add clarified butter (the directions for clarifying butter are on page 10) to the batter at the end.
From 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., Mr. Downs sells hardware.
add a colon between 6 and 00
Is lagoon supposed to be capitalized?
Not unless it is in the name of a place.
"The lagoon was smelly."
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"The Peterson State Lagoon Reserve was smelly."
Do you capitalize per in a title as in per site?
Since "per" is a preposition, you shouldn't capitalize it. A movie title, for example: "Violence per Interest"
Do you capitalize the first word in a parentheses?
Whether or not you capitalize the first word inside a parenthetical statement depends on the placement and use of the statement itself.
If the phrase inside parenthesis is not a complete sentence (and also, if it is inserted in the middle of an enclosing sentence), you would not capitalize the first word. The exception to that, of course, is if the word would normally be capitalized as a proper noun (Mike, for instance).
If the phrase in parenthesis is a complete sentence, it would also, then, start with a capital letter. A statement like this generally would notbe inserted into the middle of a sentence as in the prior case. (This isn't hard to remember once you practice a bit!)
