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This document provides a lesson on capitalization rules in writing. It outlines 10 rules for capitalization including: [1] capitalizing names of people, [2] capitalizing the first word of every sentence, [3] capitalizing names of cities, countries, and continents, [4] capitalizing days of the week, [5] capitalizing months of the year, [6] capitalizing names of streets and highways, [7] capitalizing brand names but not product names, [8] always capitalizing the pronoun "I", [9] capitalizing names of places like hospitals and companies, and [10] capitalizing acronyms. It then provides an exercise applying these rules.

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Lesson One

This document provides a lesson on capitalization rules in writing. It outlines 10 rules for capitalization including: [1] capitalizing names of people, [2] capitalizing the first word of every sentence, [3] capitalizing names of cities, countries, and continents, [4] capitalizing days of the week, [5] capitalizing months of the year, [6] capitalizing names of streets and highways, [7] capitalizing brand names but not product names, [8] always capitalizing the pronoun "I", [9] capitalizing names of places like hospitals and companies, and [10] capitalizing acronyms. It then provides an exercise applying these rules.

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Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

UFC _ Laghouat
Department of English
Level: Licence _ S2

Dr. M Gasmi
Writing
LESSON ONE (01)

Capitalization
Capitalization is a good place to start when you study writing.

1. Capitalize the names of people

Ben Johnson Tom Clinton Ahmed

2. Capitalize the first word of every sentence.

A sentence can be a statement, command, question or an exclamation.

 Statement: My brother is at home.


 Command: Close the door.
 Question: Are you a student?
 Exclamation: Look out!

3. Capitalize the names of cities, countries, and continents

Moscow London Algiers

Algeria England Ireland

Europe Asia Africa

4. Capitalize the days of the week

Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

5. Capitalize the months of the year, but not the seasons

July February summer spring

6. Capitalize the names of streets, lanes, roads, avenues and highways

Emir Abdelkader Street Third Avenue

7. Capitalize brand names, but don’t capitalize the names of the product.

A Samsung television A Lotte hamburger


8. Always capitalize the subject pronoun « I »

Ali and I went to the stadium.

9. Capitalize place names such as hospitals, hotels, buildings, companies, and schools

Elbadr Bank Mercure Hotel Seoul National University

10. Capitalize Acronyms

Acronyms use capital letters from the first letters of a name to make an abbreviation. We
write and say the short form. These acronyms are spoken as letters:

 the UN the United Nations


 the USA the United States of America
 the UK the United Kingdom
 the UAE the United Arab Emirates
 the WTO World Trade Organization
 OPEC the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Exercise 1

Fill in the blanks in the sentences below with the correct form of be. Then write the sentences
with correct capitalization and punctuation on the lines below.

1. seoul national university ________ near subway stop number 238

2. the silla hotel ___________ near the Hilton hotel

3. kaist ___________in daejon

4. you can buy tortillas at the supermarket in the hanam building

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