{"id":571,"date":"2016-02-22T00:52:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T05:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=571"},"modified":"2016-02-22T01:09:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T06:09:13","slug":"capitalisation-rules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=571","title":{"rendered":"CAPITALISATION RULES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=513\">English Grammar<\/a>\u00a0&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=520\">Nouns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capital letters are used with particular types of nouns, in certain positions in sentences, and with some adjectives. You must always use capital letters for:<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of a sentence<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dogs are noisy.<\/li>\n<li>Children are noisy too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first person personal pronoun, I<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yesterday, I went to the park.<\/li>\n<li>He isn&#8217;t like I am.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Names and titles of people<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the President of the United States<\/li>\n<li>the Queen of England<\/li>\n<li>the Headmaster of Eton<\/li>\n<li>Doctor Mathews<\/li>\n<li>Professor Samuels<\/li>\n<li>Marilyn Monroe<\/li>\n<li>Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Titles of works, books and movies<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>War and Peace<\/li>\n<li>The Merchant of Venice<\/li>\n<li>Crime and Punishment<\/li>\n<li>Spiderman III<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Months of the Year<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>January<\/li>\n<li>July<\/li>\n<li>February<\/li>\n<li>August<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Days of the week<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday<\/li>\n<li>Friday<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday<\/li>\n<li>Saturday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seasons<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spring<\/li>\n<li>Summer<\/li>\n<li>Autumn<\/li>\n<li>Winter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Holidays<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christmas<\/li>\n<li>Easter<\/li>\n<li>New Year&#8217;s Day<\/li>\n<li>Thanksgiving Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Names of countries and continents<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>America<\/li>\n<li>England<\/li>\n<li>Scotland<\/li>\n<li>Vietnam<\/li>\n<li>China<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Names of regions, states, provinces, districts<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sussex<\/li>\n<li>California<\/li>\n<li>Provence<\/li>\n<li>Tuscany<\/li>\n<li>Ontario<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Names of cities, towns, villages<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>London<\/li>\n<li>Cape Town<\/li>\n<li>Florence<\/li>\n<li>Toronto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Names of rivers, oceans, seas, lakes<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Atlantic<\/li>\n<li>the Pacific<\/li>\n<li>Lake Ontario<\/li>\n<li>the Rhine<\/li>\n<li>the Thames<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Names of geographical formations<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Himalayas<\/li>\n<li>the Alps<\/li>\n<li>the Sahara<\/li>\n<li>the Rockies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adjectives relating to nationality<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>French food<\/li>\n<li>Australian animals<\/li>\n<li>English literature<\/li>\n<li>Araboc writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collective nouns for nationalities<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the French<\/li>\n<li>the English<\/li>\n<li>the Americans<\/li>\n<li>the Vietnamese<\/li>\n<li>the Chinese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Language names<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I speak Vietnamese<\/li>\n<li>She speaks Chinese<\/li>\n<li>He understands English<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Names of streets, buildings, parks<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Park Lane<\/li>\n<li>Sydney Opera House<\/li>\n<li>Central Park<\/li>\n<li>the Empire State Building<\/li>\n<li>Wall Street<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Grammar\u00a0&gt;\u00a0Nouns Capital letters are used with particular types of nouns, in certain positions in sentences, and with some adjectives. You must always use capital letters for: The beginning of a sentence EXAMPLES Dogs&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}