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Capitalization Rules and Examples

1. Capitalize the FIRST WORD in every sentence.

(The trees are beginning to lose their leaves.)

2. Traditionally, the FIRST WORD of a line of poetry is capitalized.

(Roses are red,

Violets are blue, )

3. Capitalize the FIRST WORD of a directly quoted sentence.

(My friend Amy said, “You can borrow my sister’s bicycle.)

4. Capitalize the FIRST WORD in both the salutation and the closing of a letter.

(Dear Mom, Your loving son, )

5. Capitalize the pronoun I and the interjection Oh.

(Oh, Carmen and I visited the art museum yesterday.)

6. Capitalize proper nouns and proper adjectives. Proper nouns = names of particular people, places, things or

ideas.

(Lassie Mexican food)

7. Capitalize the names of persons and animals.

(Mickey Mouse)

8. Capitalize initials in names and abbreviations that come before or after names.

(John F. Kennedy, Jr. Dr. Harold Nimrod)

9. Capitalize geographical names. (DO NOT capitalize words in names that contain fewer than five letters, like a,

an, the, of, at, etc.)

(the Grand Canyon Gulf of Mexico Europe Yosemite National Park)

10. Capitalize the names of organizations, teams, institutions, and government bodies.

(Supreme Court Wildcats University of Chicago)

11. Capitalize the names of buildings and other structures, monuments, memorials, and awards.

(Lincoln Memorial Nobel Peace Prize Academy Award Empire State Building)

12. Capitalize the names of religions and their followers, holy days and celebrations, sacred writings, and specific

dates.

(Catholicism Puritans Torah Passover)

13. Capitalize the names of specific planets, stars, constellations, and other heavenly bodies.

(Mercury the Milky War Ursa Major)


14. Capitalize the names of special events, holidays, calendar items, and historical events and periods. (The

names of seasons are usually NOT capitalized. Capitalize a season ONLY IF it is being personified or used in the

names of a special event, i.e. O, Spring, bring us rain. OR I can’t wait for the Winter Wonderland

Carnival.)

(Boston Marathon Industrial Revolution Monday June)

15. Capitalize the names of nationalities, races, and peoples.

(the British a Georgian the Lebanese)

16. Capitalize the names of ships, trains, aircraft, and spacecraft, as well as the names of businesses and the

brand names of business products.

(Air Force One Sue’s Designs Kleenex the Orient Express)

17. DO NOT capitalize the names of school subjects, EXCEPT FOR the names of language classes or course names

that contain a number or title of a SPECIFIC course.

(World History Biology 101 Spanish)

18. Capitalize a person’s title when the title comes BEFORE the person’s name.

(President George W. Bush Dr. Wong Senator Burns)

19. Capitalize a word showing a family relationship when the word is used before or in place of a person’s name,

unless the word follows a possessive noun or pronoun.

(Grandmama Uncle John my grandfather)

20. Capitalize the first, last, and all important words in titles and subtitles.

(The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet The New York Times)

21. Capitalize professional, military, civil, official, and noble titles of persons, WHEN the title appears immediately

BEFORE the person’s name. (When a person is used alone or following a person’s name, the title is NOT usually

capitalized, especially when a or the comes before the title.)

(Mayor Bengali General Dwight D. Eisenhower King George Lord Maltby)

22. Capitalize the titles of creative works, including books, articles, songs, poems, movies, television programs,

musical compositions, paintings, sculptures, and plays.

(“America the Beautiful” Wicked The Battle of Ultron)

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