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Practical English Grammar


First Capitalization List


Here are names of people, places, and things to capitalize. This is the first
of two lists of names that require capital letters.

Albums (Abbey Road, Grease)
Awards (Emmys®, Oscars®)
Bodies of water (Atlantic Ocean, Lake Superior)
Books (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Bible)
Buildings and other structures (the Taj Mahal, Empire State Building)
Businesses (Moe’s Greeting Cards, Tom’s Beverage)
Car models (Toyota Camry, Nissan Sentra)
CD’s (Nannie’s Tunes, Three Famous Composers)
Chapters and other parts of a book (‘‘My Life,’’ ‘‘Soccer’’)
Cities (Fresno, Tallahassee)
Comic strips (Peanuts, For Better or Worse)
Computer programs (Microsoft Word, Excel)
Constellations (Aquarius, Libra)
Continents (Africa, Asia)
Counties (Norfolk, Dade)
Countries (Spain, Ireland)
Days (Thursday, Saturday)
Essays (‘‘Self Reliance,’’ ‘‘The Philosophy of Composition’’)
Family names (Uncle John, Cousin Moe)
Galaxies (Milky Way, Andromeda)
Governmental bodies (U.S. Senate, Department of the Interior)
Historical documents (Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution)
Historical events and periods (Battle of Bunker Hill, the Renaissance)
Holidays (Labor Day, Fourth of July)
Holy days (Ramadan, Yom Kippur)
Institutions (Marquette University, City College of New York)
Islands (Aruba, Crete)
Months (January, December)
Monuments (Mount Rushmore, Lincoln Memorial)
Mountains (Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains)
Movies (Rocky, The Outsiders)
Musical works (Dark Side of the Moon, If I Were a Rich Man)
Nationalities (Greek, Chinese)

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Notes


Practical English Grammar - Notes
1. Italics Hyphens and Brackets
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2. compound subjects part two
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3. Quotation Marks Part Three
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4. Sound a like words Part Four
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5. complete and simple subjects
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6. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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7. Second Capitalization List
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8. irregular verbs part two
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9. the object of the preposition
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10. Active and passive voices
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11. complete and simple predicates
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12. the noun
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13. the noun clause
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14. The possessive case
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15. Confusing usage words part six
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16. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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17. agreement involving prepositional phrases
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18. the indirect object
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19. the prepositional phrase
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20. Confusing usage words part three
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21. More Apostrophe Situations
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22. Quotation Marks Part Two
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23. the correlative conjunction
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24. Confusing usage words part seven
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25. the adverb
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26. the adjective phrase
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27. Confusing usage words part four
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28. Sound alike words part one
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29. regular verb tenses
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30. the direct object
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31. Transitive and intransitive verbs
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32. compound subject and compound predicate
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33. The verb be
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34. the adjective
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35. Confusing usage words part two
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36. Sound a like words Part Two
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37. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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38. The Semicolon
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39. More subject verb agreement situations
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40. compound complex sentences
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41. subject and verb agreement
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42. the interjection
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43. the verb
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44. the gerund and gerund phrase
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45. Commas Part Three
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46. First Capitalization List
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47. types of sentences by purpose
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48. complex sentences
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49. pronouns and their antecedents
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50. the subordinating conjunction
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