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Instructional video for March 27, 2020.

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you're no saint capitalization capitalization seems like it makes no sense common sense I can give you a list of things that should be capitalized with some examples harder ones where is the Vault of the first you should capitalize is obviously the first word of a sentence right because that's how to start with capitalization and you know who you are you should also be capitalizing the pronoun I yet this is important you need to be capitalizing as I still see a lot of you doing lowercase i you also need to capitalize proper nouns and proper nouns are names of specific common nouns come on computer caso4 example proper nouns capitalized America rides on Country you capitalize the name Frank common noun boy would capitalize the name Lil Nas X we would capitalize the common noun of rapper capitalize the title of our school Desert Sky but we wouldn't capitalize the common noun School case of proper nouns have to be capitalized names of specific common nouns I want to capitalize family relationships that we use as titles so we'll use them as proper noun that's not Grandma bun but if you're just saying my grandma or my aunt or my aunt did this or your aunt or something like that you're not using it to name something you're also going to capitalize the names of God religious figures and hole looks like Jehovah Bible those are going to be capitalized going to capitalize titles that come before names but not after confusing to you we were going to say President Trump is going to be capitalized if you were going to say the going to say Trump the president capitalize Trump's name we're not going to capitalize president which is the final queso titles meaning of the word name in something so President Trump capitalized because you're putting the title right before the name Trump the president you're not going to capitalize president cuz it's coming capitalize directions that are names I don't mean like here that's not going to be capitalized Northwest Pacific Northwest that's going to be capitalized but if I'm telling you need to go south down this road you're not going to because that's not a name now that's a direction is there were only capitalizing directions that are named no more questions about that please reach out to me because I know a lot of people we also need to know already capitalize days of the week months and holidays Friday August March April May capitalize Christmas new year's Thanksgiving capitalized what is the first word of a sentence in a direct quote like Mom said go to bed that goal is going to be capitalized right there because it's the first word of a sentence major words with major meaning capitalize little words like a and a major word in titles of books articles and song all right so for example if we have the book The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows Nota forgot to capitalize Delray those are major words or prepositions capitalized in the major ones and titles you're also going to capitalize members of national political racial social Civic and athletic groups play sample in a person that the black lives matter movement that's going to be capitalized cuz it's a social group we're going to capitalize. And events numbers like people talk about the Crazy 8 capitalize the Roaring Twenties it's all going to be capitalized I don't even know what they called the other ones Millennial capitalized describes a cheerleader religion have a specific name is going to be capitalized this is a really really long with trademark so like specific names of businesses like Burger King McDonald's away 4 in abbreviations specific names as an ox things that come from proper noun when we take organic apple is smh abbreviation for shaking my head blue Chapel ice CNN abbreviation for a TV station SOS with him for help and MLM which means multi-level marketing proper nouns are abbreviations or acronyms that we use and we capitalize on something we turn them into something that's a little bit shorter like and that about covers your calculation of a long list of things you should be you on your study island if you have all of these is a lot easier to go through when you can reference should I capitalize this should I not have any questions reach out to me

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