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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 prepositional phrase
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6. what good writers do
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7. the indirect object
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8. The possessive case
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9. the direct object
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10. the adverb
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11. the adjective clause
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12. the appositive
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13. The verb be
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14. Sound a like words Part Two
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15. The Colon
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16. the pronoun
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17. The Apostrophe
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18. complete and simple subjects
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19. Commas Part Four
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20. Second Capitalization List
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21. personal pronouns
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22. Commas Part Three
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23. Quotation Marks Part Two
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24. Confusing usage words part three
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25. types of nouns
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26. complex sentences
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27. the noun clause
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28. Confusing usage words part six
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29. Transitive and intransitive verbs
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30. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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31. the correlative conjunction
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32. Confusing usage words part one
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33. Confusing usage words part four
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34. subject complements predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives
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35. Confusing usage words part three
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36. More Apostrophe Situations
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37. introducing clauses
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38. the adverb clause
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39. Sound a like words Part Four
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40. complete and simple predicates
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41. Confusing usage words part two
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42. Sound alike words part one
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43. Commas Part One
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44. Commas Part Five
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45. the object of the preposition
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46. the verb
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47. The nominative case
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48. Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case
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49. Quotation Marks Part One
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50. First Capitalization List
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