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Practical English Grammar


Second Capitalization List


Here are names of people, places, and things to capitalize.

Organizations (Girl Scouts of America, American Bar Association)
Parishes (Vernon Parish, Terrebonne Parish)
Parks (Yellowstone National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park)
Periodicals (Time, Newsweek)
Planets (Saturn, Mercury)
Plays (Death of a Salesman, The Master Builder)
Poems (‘‘Boy Wandering in Simms’ Valley,’’ ‘‘Richard Cory’’)
Product names (Hostess Twinkies®, Evian® water)
Races (Caucasian, Indian)
Regions (Southeast, Northwest)
Religions and their followers (Catholicism, Protestants)
Religious celebrations (Easter, Rosh Hashanah)
Roads (Lincoln Highway, US 1)
Sacred writings (Talmud, Koran)
School subjects (capitalize only languages and courses that have a number or letter after
them) (English, Math A, Biology 101)
Ships (U.S.S. Constitution, Monitor)
Short stories (‘‘The Ransom of Red Chief,’’ ‘‘Luck’’)
Spacecraft (Mir, Sputnik)
Special events (Mother’s Day, Oklahoma State Fair)
Stars (Pollux, Castor)
States (South Carolina, Texas)
Streets (Winters Avenue, Mansfield Drive)
Teams (San Diego Chargers, Boston Red Sox)
Television and radio programs (Week in Review, Car Talk)
Titles of people’s names (Dr. Landerson, Mrs. Pennington)
Towns (Clinton, Canton)
Townships (Daggett Township, Duplain Township)
Trains (Golden Gate, Tulsan)
Video games (Chain Reaction, Crossword Puzzler)
Videos (The History of Independence Day, Golfing)
Works of art (Piet`a, American Gothic)

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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. irregular verbs part two
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8. Second Capitalization List
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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. the indirect object
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16. Confusing usage words part six
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17. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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18. agreement involving prepositional phrases
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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. the adverb
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25. Confusing usage words part seven
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26. the direct object
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27. the adjective phrase
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28. Confusing usage words part four
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29. Sound alike words part one
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30. regular verb tenses
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31. compound subject and compound predicate
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32. Transitive and intransitive verbs
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33. The Semicolon
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34. The verb be
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35. the interjection
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36. the adjective
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37. Confusing usage words part two
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38. Sound a like words Part Two
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39. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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40. Commas Part Three
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41. First Capitalization List
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42. More subject verb agreement situations
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43. types of sentences by purpose
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44. compound complex sentences
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45. subject and verb agreement
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46. pronouns and their antecedents
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47. types of nouns
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48. the verb
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49. The possessive case and pronouns
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50. the appositive
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