Capital Letters

We always use capital letters at the the beginning of the following kinds of words. Of course, we use it at the beginning of every new sentence. We learned that in our very first English class. In the same class, we learned that we always capitalize the first person subject [ I ], always!


1. The names of the days, of the week, times of the year, events, holidays, but not usuallly the seasons.
Sunday Monday March Easter Christmas


2. The names of people, places, titles of books, titles of movies, any proper name or title. In longer titles and names we do not capitalize connecting words but just nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs. The exception for this is on the spine of a book but not on the cover.
Queen Elizabeth, Canada, Mars, the Middle East, Forrest Gump, The Ritz Carlton Hotel ,The United States of America, Gone with the Wind, The People's Republic of China, No Frills Supermarket, the Parliament buildings, Microsoft User Specialist, Yohei Kamamato, Mark, Humberto Pasqualli, or nicknames like Jose, Mo, Ji, or Choi.


3. The nouns of adjectives referring to nationalities and regions, geographic regions, political regions, religions, ethnic groups, or regions interplanetary or otherwise.
Russian, French, Thai, American, Chinese cooking, Korean food, the Atlantic Ocean, Hudson's Bay, the Saint Lawerence River, the Sea of Tranquility[on the Earth's moon], the Crimean, the Sea of Japan[Korea], New York City, Quebec City and the Artic.