Mr. President. Should I write it with a capital letter or a lowercase letter?
Hey mom! If I write a text should I capitalize 'mom'?
I will meet you on Thursday! How should I text it? With a capital t or lowercase t?
So when should I capitalize letters and when I shouldn't? See you in a few!
Hello my dear friends and welcome to English Mania! My name is Antonia Romaker and today
we'll study basic capitalization rules, the rules which tell us
when we should use a capital letter and when a lowercase letter.
A capital letter is a big letter, you usually start a sentence with a capital letter,
you write I as a pronoun as a capital letter.
These are obvious but let's discuss some rules which are not that obvious for foreigners.
You capitalize days of the week, months and holidays, but not seasons.
My birthday is in spring, in April. Notice that the word spring starts with a lowercase letter
and the word April starts with a capital letter. We capitalize months.
The spelling of the word Wednesday is so challenging and misleading, right? Wednesday,
it's a day of the week, we capitalize those too! See you on Monday! Monday should be capitalized.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday - all of those.
January, February, March, April and so on, capitalize those too! What are your plans for Christmas?
Christmas is a holiday and it should be capitalized too. Hanukkah, New year, Easter and other holidays.
How about birthday? It's not capitalized.
Winter, spring, summer and autumn or fall, they are not capitalized ever.
Well if they go at the beginning of the sentence they are.
Of course, we capitalize names of people and places. He knows Shakespeare inside out,
everything. Is he crazy? The Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth, Sun, planets, stars, names.
Russia is in both Europe and Asia. Russia, Europe, Asia, they are all capitalized.
Roger Penrose was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 2020.
Roger Penrose is a proper name and we should capitalize it.
Notice that we capitalize mom, dad, grandma, grandpa when we use them as names.
As for shortenings Dr, Mrs, Ms and Mr, they are capitalized all the time too.
Last Thursday I went to Dr Grey for a checkup. Notice how many capitalizations we have here.
As for titles if they go right before the name we capitalize them too. President Abraham Lincoln.
Mr President. If the title is used as an address to someone we also capitalize it.
Mr President, what do you think about the current situation in Russia?
We also capitalized languages and nationalities as well as the adjectives derived from those
which refer to people and places. What are Americans good at?
What are Russians famous for? Let's talk some misconceptions. Kidding!
I am from Russia but I know very few Moscovites.
So Moscowites are also capitalized, this is the word used for people who
live in Moscow, a very weird word.
There are some other rules but today I wanted to cover the most essential ones,
the basic rules of capitalization. If you have any questions write a comment.
If you have some other examples and some rules which you want to ponder over and elaborate on, let's do so.
Write a comment, let's talk it out. Anyway, that's it for today, I hope that you enjoyed watching this class.
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