Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Capitals
Capitals
2. They are used when a particular thing is being named. For instance -
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5. They are also used in the titles of books, plays, films, newspapers,
magazines, songs, and works of art in general.
6. The normal convention is to capitalise the first word and any nouns or
important terms. Smaller words such as 'and', 'of', and 'the' are left
uncapitalised.
7. The convention for presenting titles in French is to capitalise only the first
or the first main word of a title.
Le Rouge et le Noir
Entre la Vie et la Mort
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10. Works written in English which have foreign titles are normally
capitalised according to the English convention.
11. Here's an interesting case! Capitals are not used for the seasons of the
year.
12. Geographic names are capitalized if they are part of the title of an area or
a political division, but not if they are descriptions in general terms.
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