English Punctuation

When do we Use Capital Letters?FIND THE MISTAKES!!!!!

1. Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun 'I':

• What can I say?

2. Use a capital letter to begin a sentence or to begin speech:

• The man arrived. he sat down.
• Suddenly Mary asked, "Do you love me?"

3. Use capital letters for many abbreviations and acronyms:

• N.A.T.O. or NATO or Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

4. Use a capital letter for days of the week, months of the year, holidays:

• Monday, tuesday
• January, February
• Christmas

5. Use a capital letter for countries, languages & nationalities, religions:

• China, France, spain, Italy
• Japanese, English
• Christianity, Buddhism

. Use a capital letter for people's names and titles:

• Anthony, Ram, William shakespeare
• Professor Jones, Dr Smith
• Captain Kirk, King Henry VIII

7. Use a capital letter for trade-marks and names of companies and other organizations:

• Pepsi Cola, Walkman
• Microsoft Corporation, Toyota, mercedes.
• the United Nations, the Red Cross

8. Use a capital letter for places and monuments:

• london, Paris, the Latin Quarter
• the Eiffel Tower, St Paul's Cathedral
• Buckingham Palace, the White House
• Oxford Street, Fifth Avenue
• Jupiter, Mars
• asia, the Middle East, the North Pole

9. Use a capital letter for names of vehicles like ships, trains and spacecraft:

• the Titanic
• the Orient Express

10. Use a capital letter for titles of books, poems, songs, plays, films etc:

• war And Peace
• The lion king, Gone With The Wind

11. Use capital letters (sometimes!) for headings, titles of articles, books etc, and newspaper headlines:

• HOW TO WIN AT POKER
• Chapter 2: CLINTON'S EARLY LIFE
• LIFE FOUND ON MARS!
• MAN BITES DOG

 
                   
Copy and complete the activity:
1) Use commas to separate items in a list of three or more.
                           
1.Carlos wants to visit Paris Italy Germany and China. 

2. My favorite colors are blue red and pink. 

3. I like to go hiking fishing swimming and camping during 
summer. 

4. I have to clean my room walk the dog and take out the trash. 

5. The tree is very tall old and green. 

6. I need to visit my mother wash my car and buy six stamps.