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5. for months of the year and days of the week. For example,
y Mother’s Day is on the second Sunday of May.

6. for names of festivals and national holidays. For example,

y Christmas
y New Year’s Eve

y Independence Day

y Gandhi Jayanti
7. for names of rivers, oceans, seas and lakes. For example,

y the Ganga

y the Indian Ocean
y the Caspian Sea

y the Dal Lake

8. for names of geographical formations, such as mountain ranges, mountains and
deserts. For example,
y the Himalayas

y Mt Everest

y the Thar Desert
9. for nationalities and nationalities as adjectives. For example,

y Chinese food

y Italian cheese
y the British

y the French

10. to begin every new line of a poem. For example,
y If I were Lord of Tartary,
Myself and me alone,

My bed should be of ivory,
Of beaten gold my throne.

Full Stop (.)

A full stop is used:

1. at the end of a declarative sentence and an Note
imperative sentence. For example,
We do not use full stops after
y The Golden Temple is a holy shrine in titles and initials in British English.

Amritsar, Punjab. For example, Dr C V Raman
y Drive slowly.

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