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Capitalization and
Punctuation
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Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Using Capital Letters
• English uses capital letters to point out important words.
• There are no lists of exceptions to memorize.
• Learn the rules.
• follow the rules.
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
• Rule 1: All sentences begin with a capital letter, even sentences that only consist of one word.
• This is my house. (statement)
• Are you going to school? (question)
• Watch out for the truck! (exclamation)
• Stop!
• Rule 2: The proper name, the name of a specific person or thing, begins with a capital letter.
All other important words in the name must also start with a capital letter.
• Saturday (a day, the weekend, tomorrow)• September (a month, beginning of school, end of
summer)• Atlantic Ocean (an ocean, a body of water, a sea)• Casa da Música (a museum, an institute, a
building)• University of Aveiro (a college, a university, a
school)• Saudi Arabia (a country, a kingdom, a monarchy)
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
• Rule 3: Titles of books, songs, stories, works of art, magazine articles, tests, and other written materials must begin with a capital letter.
• The Merchant of Venice• The Star-spangled Banner• The New York Times• The Carolina Test of Student Ability
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
• Rule 4: The letter I, when used as a pronoun referring to yourself must always be written
as a capital letter.• I am not happy.• Am I the first person here?• Tell me what I have to do.
Rule 5: The first word of a direct quotation must begin with a capital letter.• "Who's been sleeping in my bed?" Pappa Bear
cried.• The teacher asked, "Can you answer this question?"
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
• Rule 6: Titles of people when used with their names or in place of their names must begin with a capital letter.
• My favorite queen is Queen Elizabeth of England.
• "Look out, Mister! You're in the way."• The sergeant replied, "Yes, sir,
Captain. I understand."
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
1 Rewrite the sentences with capital letters and punctuation.
1.1 my favorite queen is queen elizabeth of england.
1.2 the teacher asked can you answer this question
1.3 stop dont work on sunday
1.4 im tall thin and strong
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
• 1 Rewrite these sentences using capital letters and punctuation.
• 1.1 in december john mary and ana went to sintra
• 1.2 the president of Portugal is mr cavaco silva
• 1.3 at the university of Lisbon im reading o crime de padre amaro by eça de queiroz
• 1.4 saturday and sunday are the weekend
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
• 1.5 can you repeat please asked the student
• 1.6 help help im being attacked shouted the woman
• 1.7 who are you whats your name where do you come from
• im a student my names rui i come from london england
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
• 2 Rewrite the paragraph putting in the capital letters and punctuation
2.1
in january i was on holiday in scotland with
my aunt polly one day we were driving
along central street it was time for lunch
so we stopped at mcdonalds
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
2.2 pussycat pussycat poem
pussycat pussycat, where have you beenive been up to london to visit the queen
pussycat pussycat what did you therei frightened a little mouse under her chair
meoww
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]
Rua Professor Veiga Simão | 3700 - 355 Fajões | Telefone: 256 850 450 | Fax: 256 850 452 | www.agrupamento-fajoes.pt | E-mail: [email protected]