Capital Letter – A Complete Guide for Grammar

Capital Letters

• Capitalization:
• It is writing a word with its first letter in capital letters and the remaining letters in smaller letters.
• Capitalization means using capital or upper-case letters.
• Capitalize the pronoun “I” always, no matter wherever it is used in a sentence.
• The first word in a sentence or a direct quote has to be capitalized.
• Proper names are capitalized.
• It includes names of people, places, companies, days of the week, and months.
• A professional title or familial role is used as a noun of address and is considered a proper noun, even if it would be a common noun in other circumstances.
• Derivatives of proper names used with an appropriate meaning are capitalized.
• Capitals are used for geographical names, not directions, unless part of a distinctive region.
• When a person’s title appears on the address or signature line after their name, capitalize it.

• Capitalize the title when used with or before a high-ranking government official’s name.
• Capitalization is used when a common noun or adjective is a crucial component of a proper name.
• The complete names of any planned or existing organizations, as well as their abbreviations, are capitalized.
• The names of those who belong to organized bodies are capitalized to set them apart from those who use the same words only for purposes of description.
• Trade names, variable names, and names of market grades and brands are capitalized.
• Only when used as proper names or adjectives are the official names of nations, national domains, and their primary administrative divisions capitalized.
• Commonwealth, confederation (federal), government, nation (national), powers, republic, etc., are comparable terms that are capitalized only when they are used as proper names, proper names, or proper adjectives.
• A proper name is a phrase that describes a particular area, region, or geographic feature and is capitalized as a result.
• A phylum, class, order, family, or genus name should be capitalized.
• Both the planets’ and celestial bodies’ names should be capitalized.
• When used as proper names for historical or political events, names are capitalized.
• The first and principal words in addresses, salutations, and signatures are capitalized.
• The interjection “O” is always capitalized. However, interjections within a sentence are not capitalized.
• Capitalize the names of races, nations, and nationalities.
• Capitalize the names of languages.
• Capital letters are used in abbreviations & initialisms.