Capitalizing Titles

Capitalizing Titles

Many people have titles due to their profession or position in life like mister, professor, senator. If you are just talking about a professor or the senator, you do not capitalize the word professor or senator.

"My professor is extending the due date until Wednesday."

But if you are talking about a specific person who is a professor or senator, then you attach the title to their name and both are capitalized.

"Senator Smith made an important announcement this morning."

A title is also capitalized when being used in place of a person's name.

"Sorry I'm late, Coach."

Multiple Choice

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Choose the correct capitalization for the following sentence.

• My Aunt and I are going shopping.

• My aunt and I are going shopping.

Multiple Choice

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Choose the correct capitalization for the following sentence.

• My Aunt Suzy is an astronaut!

• My aunt Suzy is an astronaut!

Now let's talk about titles of books, movies, plays, poems, songs, etc. There are two basic rules to capitalizing these types of titles.

• Capitalize the first and last word of a title

• Capitalize all nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns in a title

A few examples of words that we do not capitalize in a title are;

a, an, the, in, on, of, if, etc.

These are called prepositions and they are only capitalized if they are the first or last word of the title.

Multiple Choice

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Choose the correct capitalization for the following title.

• Anne Of Green Gables

• Anne of Green Gables

• Anne of green gables

Multiple Choice

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Choose the correct capitalization for the following title.

• The Sound of Music

• The Sound Of Music

• the Sound of Music

Open Ended

Correct the following sentence in the space provided.

I heard justine's Dad wants to bring the family here for easter.

Open Ended

Correct the following sentence in the space provided.

The Journalist called out, "excuse me, senator, may i ask you a question?"

Open Ended

Correct the following sentence in the space provided.

After dr. quinn became the head of saint damian hospital, his book, a walk clears your heart, sold many more copies.

Open Ended

Correct the following sentence in the space provided.

On thursday, Marco and his Sister Naomi leave for nasa's space camp because they both want to be Astronauts someday.

Open Ended

Correct the following sentence in the space provided.

Nazeda thought professor Kim was the best Professor in the english department.

Great job!