Capital Letters
English Language: KS3, topic 2.1.2
Capital Letters
Capital letters are used for four reasons:
To begin a sentence
- Capital letters are used at the beginning of every sentence.
For proper nouns
- Proper nouns are the names of people, places, cities or organisations.
- 'London' is a proper noun and should always start with a capital letter.
- The word 'river' is NOT a proper noun so should start with a lower case letter.
- The name 'River Thames' should start with capital letters because it is the name of a river.
To write the pronoun ‘I’
- Whenever we write the pronoun ‘I’ it must be a capital letter.
- There are no exceptions to this.
- For example:
- ‘It is a shame that i can’t swim.’ ❌
- ‘It is a shame that I can’t swim.’ ✅
In titles
- The following words should start with a capital letter in a title"
- The first word in the title.
- The last word in the title.
- All the important words in a title (e.g. NOT 'a', 'an', 'the', 'and', 'with', etc.)
Test yourself on Capital Letters
What are the four reasons to use capital letters?
Which of these sentences uses capital letters correctly?
Which sentence uses capital letters correctly?