Capitalization Rules and Exceptions

This video tutorial by Rebecca covers the rules of capitalization in English, focusing on names, relatives, days, months, holidays, streets, cities, countries, continents, mountains, water bodies, languages, nationalities, and companies. It provides examples and exceptions to help learners understand when to capitalize words. The lesson concludes with a suggestion to practice these rules and take a quiz on the website.

What is the main focus of today's lesson?

• Capitalization rules for numbers

• Capitalization rules for punctuation

• Capitalization rules for names

• Capitalization rules for titles

When writing a person's name, which part should be capitalized?

• Only the first name

• Only the last name

• The first letter of each part of the name

• None of the above

How should the word 'uncle' be capitalized in the sentence 'Uncle Peter came to visit'?

• Uncle

• UnCle

• uncle

• UNCLE

Which of the following should be capitalized?

• Adjectives

• Common nouns

• Seasons

• Days of the week

In the phrase 'New Year's Day', which letters should be capitalized?

• None of the above

• Only the N

• N, Y, and D

• Only the D

Which part of a street name should be capitalized?

• Neither

• Both the name and the word 'street'

• Only the name of the street

• Only the word 'street'

Which of the following is correctly capitalized?

• king Street

• King street

• King Street

• king street

How should the name 'Saudi Arabia' be capitalized?

• saudi Arabia

• Saudi Arabia

• saudi arabia

• Saudi arabia

In the name 'the Philippines', which word is not capitalized?

• Both words are capitalized

• Neither word is capitalized

• Philippines

• The

Which of the following should be capitalized?

• Names of animals

• Names of colors

• Names of emotions

• Names of continents