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Even if the speaker of the last sentence is acquainted with your mom and is thinking of that mom specifically, mom is not being used as a proper name, so it is not capitalized. Adam asked his Uncle if he could stay for dinner. Adam asked his uncle if he could stay for dinner. The directions of the compass are not capitalized unless they are used as part of the proper name of a region.
The trail continued west all the way to the coastline. Because we capitalize the days of the week and the months of the year , people sometimes capitalize the seasons spring, summer, fall or autumn , and winter by extension. However, they should only be capitalized when they are used as a part of a proper name. Will you be visiting New York in the Spring?
Will you be visiting New York in the spring? I am thinking of attending the Spring Social this year. It is just plain hard to resist capitalizing job titles, but once again, unless they are used in the act of naming someone, do not capitalize them. Please allow me to introduce you to our managing director, Bob Smith.
No matter how important you deem the job a person does, resist the urge to capitalize his or her title if it does not name him or her. When brand names come into common use to describe a whole class of items, it is easy to forget to capitalize them. Brand names, however, are proper names.
He asked his mother to hand him a tissue. We wish you the best! We invite you to share your research with the community by posting it online as a preprint. Our sister company, Research Square , is a trusted preprint platform that lets you get credit for your unpublished research early, increase your citations, and get feedback from the community.
Scientific writing often involves describing new results based on observations and techniques originally described by others. In many of these cases, citing previous work provides Read More ». It is widely known that each sentence in English starts with a capital or uppercase letter. Here are some other cases in which the choice Toggle navigation Toggle navigation. News, tips, and resources from the academic publishing experts at AJE. Capitalization of Proper and Common Nouns Basic capitalization rules are simple in English, but there are tricky conventions to consider.
Proper nouns refer to a specific person, place, or thing and are always capitalized.
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