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Capitalization & Punctuation

Capitalization & Punctuation. & Why it’s Important. What You Capitalize. What a Capital Idea!. All Names are capitalized as PROPER NOUNS People Places Names of specific things You also capitalize reference to yourself (I) – which are not used in essays. Ever.

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Capitalization & Punctuation

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  1. Capitalization & Punctuation & Why it’s Important

  2. What You Capitalize What a Capital Idea! • All Names are capitalized as PROPER NOUNS • People • Places • Names of specific things • You also capitalize reference to yourself (I) – which are not used in essays. Ever. • Titles of things, places, or people are also capitalized • Duke • Queen

  3. Punctuation What you say should be what you mean! • Periods end a thought. Always. • You never have more than one punctuation mark at the end of a sentence unless it is an elipsis … • That means you don’t do this!!!!!!!! • Or this?!?!?! • You CAN use a period inside quotation marks, IF it is the end of the sentence and not just the quote. • If you have more than a couple commas in your sentence, you probably need to rephrase your sentence. Let’s eat Grandpa! Let’s eat, Grandpa!

  4. For When Listening to the Schoepf isn’t Enough… Glove & Boots

  5. Let’s Play a Game! Catch the Error This will appear after you’ve made your guesses to show you where the error is! See how many you can catch!

  6. Practice Round:

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