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Exercise in Capitalization

This document contains a 16 question exercise on capitalization rules. The exercise presents sentences with potential errors in capitalization of words. For each word, the user indicates whether it is capitalized correctly with a C or incorrectly with an I. Some examples of words addressed include days of the week, months, proper nouns such as people, places, organizations. Upon completing the exercise, the user submits it to be automatically checked for accuracy.

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Exercise in Capitalization

This document contains a 16 question exercise on capitalization rules. The exercise presents sentences with potential errors in capitalization of words. For each word, the user indicates whether it is capitalized correctly with a C or incorrectly with an I. Some examples of words addressed include days of the week, months, proper nouns such as people, places, organizations. Upon completing the exercise, the user submits it to be automatically checked for accuracy.

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31/8/2014 Exercise in Capitalization

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Exercise in
Capitalization
Each of the eighty spaces below is preceded by an "opportunity for error" in
capitalization. If the word is capitalized correctly, write a C in the space; if it is
incorrect, write an I (use capital letters). The tab key will take you from space
to space. When you're finished, click on the "submit application" at the
bottom of the page and the computer will check your answers.
1. Dr. Goldberger traveled through the Southern I part of pennsylvania
I to get to the conference on victorian I poetry C
.
2. Many of the students in the introduction C to Microcomputers course
at the university C of hartford I last fall C
preferred using macintosh I Computers I rather than the
pc's C provided in the Lab I .
3. My favorite uncle C , my Father's C brother, wrote a
famous book on the role of buddha I in Herman Hesse's novel
siddhartha I .
4. "Wait," He C said, "Until C the Huskies C
have won a few games."
5. The secretary C of the Society C of Concerned C
Students C wrote to the Ambassador C of south
I Africa C .
6. On the fourth I of July C , we celebrate the war C
of Independence C ; on labor I Day C , we
celebrate the contributions of Organized I Labor I to
American C life.
7. My mother I asked Mayor C Pete C a
question about scandinavian I immigration.
31/8/2014 Exercise in Capitalization
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8. I'll never forget reading the I Last C Of I
The I Mohicans C when I was in Mrs. C
Turveydrop's high C school C English C class.
9. Didwell somehow managed to get an A C in his Physics C
course, but he failed History C 104.
10. I think that lake I Superior C is the largest and the most
Northern C of the great C lakes C .
11. Clerihew is a classical I studies I major, but his favorite
course is in french I history I .
12. News of the grant was announced by President C Chauncey
Bedouin, who used to be president C of Breadwidth C
university I .
13. Dogsbreath played baseball C until he came down with Measles
C .
14. Last spring C , sometime in late March C , I believe,
Grillbody heard that he had been awarded a Fulbright C fellowship
I .
15. Tashonda earned a master's I degree I in business
I before she went on for a Ph.D. C in Economics C
.
16. Most 20th-Century C art leaves me cold, but I love the the French
impressionists C and the nineteenth- I century I
british I landscape painters. .
RESULTS: 55 Correct -- 25 Wrong -- 0 Skipped
Capitalization
31/8/2014 Exercise in Capitalization
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