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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. 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. Commas Part Two
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6. the indirect object
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7. Transitive and intransitive verbs
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8. complex sentences
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9. the appositive
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10. the adjective clause
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11. Sound a like words Part Two
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12. Sound a like words Part Four
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13. The Semicolon
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14. The verb be
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15. compound subjects part one
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16. Confusing usage words part four
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17. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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18. Commas Part Five
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19. More Apostrophe Situations
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20. The coordinating conjunction
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21. the interjection
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22. irregular verbs part two
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23. the participle and participial phrase
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24. Confusing usage words part two
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25. Misplaced and dangling modifiers
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26. Active and passive voices
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27. Sound a like words Part Three
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28. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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29. Commas Part Three
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30. Quotation Marks Part Two
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31. The possessive case
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32. indefinite pronouns
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33. More subject verb agreement situations
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34. types of sentences by purpose
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35. compound complex sentences
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36. pronouns and their antecedents
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37. the preposition
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38. the object of the preposition
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39. subject complements predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives
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40. the adjective phrase
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41. singular and plural nouns and pronouns
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42. the verb
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43. the adverb
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44. sentences fragments and run on sentences
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45. the adverb phrase
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46. the gerund and gerund phrase
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47. the infinitive and infinitive phrase
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48. what good writers do
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49. Confusing usage words part one
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50. Confusing usage words part three
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