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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. Quotation Marks Part Three
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3. compound subjects part two
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4. Using Capital Letters
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5. the adverb
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6. the appositive
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7. the indirect object
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8. the adjective clause
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9. what good writers do
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10. The Apostrophe
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11. the pronoun
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12. The possessive case
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13. The Colon
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14. the prepositional phrase
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15. The verb be
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16. the direct object
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17. Sound a like words Part Two
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18. Sound a like words Part Four
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19. the correlative conjunction
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20. complete and simple subjects
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21. the noun clause
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22. Commas Part One
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23. Parentheses Ellipsis Marks and Dashes
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24. Confusing usage words part three
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25. Quotation Marks Part Two
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26. the subordinating conjunction
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27. Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case
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28. Confusing usage words part one
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29. Confusing usage words part six
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30. Commas Part Four
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31. Commas Part Five
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32. complex sentences
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33. agreement involving prepositional phrases
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34. Misplaced and dangling modifiers
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35. Commas Part Three
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36. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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37. More Apostrophe Situations
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38. complete and simple predicates
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39. the object of the preposition
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40. the adjective
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41. Sound alike words part one
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42. Second Capitalization List
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43. indefinite pronouns
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44. irregular verbs part one
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45. Confusing usage words part three
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46. Confusing usage words part seven
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47. Sound a like words Part Three
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48. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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49. Commas Part Two
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50. The Semicolon
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