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Capital Letters

Warm-up

Correct the errors in the use of punctuation and capital letters.

1. saturday 2. wont 3. the red fort

4. diwali 5. ms wilson 6. spanish villa

7. shakespeares play 8. sun’’s rays 9. marthas home

Capital letters and marks of punctuation make our writing easier to read.

Let us study more about them.

Capital Letters

A capital letter is used

1. to begin a sentence. For example,

y These children are very noisy.

y He is an engineer.

2. for titles and names of people, places, streets and buildings. For example,
y Dr Arvind Thapa is a consultant at Leeds Hospital in Kolkata.

y The Charminar is close to Laad Bazaar and Mecca Masjid.

3. for the pronoun I. For example,

y Yesterday, I went to the mall.

4. for titles of works, books, magazines and films. For example,
y the Mona Lisa y the Outlook

y War and Peace y The Adventures of Tintin

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