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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Historical documents (Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution)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. compound subjects part two
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2. Quotation Marks Part Three
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3. Italics Hyphens and Brackets
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4. complete and simple subjects
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5. Sound a like words Part Four
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6. the adjective clause
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7. what good writers do
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8. Commas Part Two
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9. the indirect object
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10. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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11. Commas Part Four
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12. subject and verb agreement
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13. the object of the preposition
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14. Confusing usage words part five
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15. The Apostrophe
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16. Quotation Marks Part Two
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17. compound subjects part one
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18. the participle and participial phrase
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19. Quotation Marks Part One
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20. First Capitalization List
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21. The coordinating conjunction
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22. Confusing usage words part one
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23. Confusing usage words part three
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24. subject verb agreement situations
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25. complex sentences
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26. Confusing usage words part three
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27. pronouns and their antecedents
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28. the prepositional phrase
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29. The nominative case
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30. Transitive and intransitive verbs
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31. agreement involving prepositional phrases
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32. types of nouns
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33. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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34. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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35. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents
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36. regular verb tenses
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37. introducing phrases
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38. the verb phrase
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39. personal pronouns
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40. irregular verbs part two
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41. Commas Part One
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42. the subordinating conjunction
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43. complete and simple predicates
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44. sentences fragments and run on sentences
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45. the gerund and gerund phrase
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46. the infinitive and infinitive phrase
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47. Confusing usage words part four
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48. types of sentences by purpose
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49. the correlative conjunction
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50. compound subject and compound predicate
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