Capitalizing Holidays

The video tutorial explains the difference between common and proper nouns, emphasizing the importance of capitalization. It highlights that proper nouns, including holidays, should always start with a capital letter. The tutorial provides examples and practice exercises to help learners identify and correctly capitalize proper nouns, particularly holiday names. The video concludes with a review of the key points and encourages learners to apply these rules in their writing.

What is the main difference between a proper noun and a common noun?

• Common nouns name specific entities and are capitalized.

• Proper nouns are always plural.

• Proper nouns name specific entities and are capitalized.

• Common nouns are always capitalized.

Which of the following is a correctly capitalized holiday?

• valentine's day

• Christmas

• father's day

• hanukkah

In the sentence 'We have no school on Presidents Day', which word needs capitalization?

• school

• presidents

• no

• on

Which sentence is correctly capitalized?

• Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17th.

• Saint Patrick's day is celebrated on March 17th.

• saint patrick's day is celebrated on March 17th.

• saint Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17th.

In the sentence 'Memorial Day and Mother's Day are celebrated in May', which words should be capitalized?

• memorial, Day, mother's, may

• Memorial, Day, Mother's, May

• memorial, day, mother's, may

• Memorial, day, Mother's, May