Skill 1, 2, & 3: Capitalization, Sentence Types, Subj-Verb

True or False: It is necessary to capitalize titles of books, magazines, poems, songs, etc.

• False; it is never necessary.
• False; it is sometimes necessary.
• True; it is sometimes necessary.
• True; it is always necessary

How many words in the following sentence should be capitalized?  "A few days ago, my mother told my father, "i'm taking phillip to frankfurt, kentucky."

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Do you capitalize the first word in a sentence?

• Yes
• No
• Sometimes
• Depends what kind of sentence

What title below uses correct capitalization?

• The Hunger Games
• Diary of a wimpy kid
• i Am Malala
• the Hot Zone

What class are we in?

• English Language Arts
• English language arts
• english Language arts
• english language arts

Proper nouns (names of places, people, etc.) are always capitalized.

• True
• False
• I don't know
• I don't care

Which of the sentences is written correctly?

• Fred is not british.
• That food has got to be Italian.
• Bill is from mexico.
• Most mexican food is spicy.

Fix this sentence: "i want to go to the grand canyon in december."

• i want to go to the Grand canyon in december.
• I want to go to the Grand Canyon in December.
• I want to go to the grand canyon in december.
• i want to go to the grand canyon in December.

Which of these needs to be capitalized?

• texas
• lobster
• television
• starship

Identify the subject and predicate of the following:
The horse appeared at the starting line.

• horse, appeared
• horse, starting
• starting line, appeared
• the, horse