hey everyone welcome back to my channel this is Dori, I'm a teacher of English and
today we're going to talk about a question I get asked
a lot! On facebook, on YouTube on my website
you name it! So the question lots of you ask me is
The short answer is yes you can but
let's look at it a little bit further. First of all, this is the official
answer taken by the official British Council IELTS
website
So, you can write all capital letters in your answers in the separate answersheet no problem, if you wish you can do that
however if you choose to write in lower case letters
you should follow some rules for example
if you are about to write the name of a person or the name of a place
the first letter should be
capitalised for example John/ Europe
J and E are going to be in capital letters.So when do we have to use
a capital letter? Let's go and have a look at some rules
rules that they're going to the very helpful not only for your listening
but also for your reading answers and especially
your writing okay number one never never never use
a lower case with the personal pronoun
"I". "I" is always capitalised
no matter where it is located in the sentence for example
"how can I help you?" although it is in the middle of the sentence,
it is capitalised okay number 2
we use a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence,
after a full stop or when we want to immitate
oral speech for example
"H" is capitalised because we begin a sentence, ok? Full stop.
"T" of "Therefore" is capitalised after a full stop.
Quotation marks: "This is great!"
So, we immitate the oral speech of the person who passed
the IELTS exam we used quotation marks, therefore the first letter
"This is great", "T" is capitalised
number three we use a capital letter for holidays
for the days of the week for months et cetera for example
Christmas it is a holiday, Sunday, Saturday
May, July the first letters are always capitalised
number 4 we use capital letters for
abbreviations for example USA
U.A.E. IELTS
number five we use a capital letter for countries geographical regions
places, cities, towns, landmarks et cetera
for example Europe, Russia, the Eiffel Tower,
the river Thames, London
Milan, you name it. Number 6 we use a capital letter
people's names John Smith for example
J&S are both capitalised first name and surname
7 we use a capital letter for
nationalities Japanese, Irish, Canadian, Arabic
the first letter is always capitalised. Number 8
we use a capital letter for
religions for example Christianity, Budhism etc
Number 9 we use a capital letter when we refer to famous companies worldwide
famous for example Microsoft,
Apple, Hyundai etc
you get the idea. Number ten for titles or professions
for example, "Sir Harold Pinter",
"Sir" is capitalised, Dr. John Smith "D"
is capitalised, Professor Williams
"P" is capitalised. Last but not least, we also use capital letters
for titles or newspaper headings
for example titles of books, of songs of articles
and stuff like that for example
So, that's pretty much all you need to know
regarding
capital letters. I really hope it helps good luck with your exam!