Grammar- Capital Letters and Punctuation Marks

​CAPITAL LETTERS & PUNCTUATION MARKS

​What should you capitalize?

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• ​The first letter of the word that begins a sentence- Today is a beautiful day.

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• ​The pronoun I- Yesterday I ate a healthy snack.

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• ​Proper Nouns- Khloe, Kyandra and Kiana all attend Whitters Institute Preparatory in Montego Bay.

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​What should we capitalize?

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• ​​Important words in a title- Who is the author of the book, First Aid in English?

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  ​The first letter of the word that begins a direct speech- Samayne asked, "What subject are we doing today, Amalya?"

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• Abbreviations that represent names-UWI offers courses in Medicine and Law.

​Punctuation marks help us to read our sentences correctly and make sense of the information.

​Hyphen