Punctuation and Capital Letters

Things to remember

Punctuation and Capital Letters

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• The full stop ( . )
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• The comma ( , )
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• The semicolon (;)
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• The colon (:)
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• The mark of interrogation (?)
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• The mark of exlamation (!)
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• The apostrophe (')
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• The quotation marks or inverted commas (" ")
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Capital letters

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• Capitalise the names of persons
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• Capitalise the name of the days of the week and of the months (but not the names of the seasons
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• Capitalise the names of religions and other words used with them
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• Capitalise the name of countries, nationalities, races, language and all adjective derived from them
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• Capitalise the name of schools, colleges, business houses, political parties
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• Capitalise the names of buildings, the names of train and ships, brand names
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• Capitalise the names of special days, special events, festivals,
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• Capitalise the first word of every sentence
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• The first word of a direct quotation is capitalised
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• We capitalise the official names of government departments, the titles of high-ranking officials
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• We capitalise the pronoun I and all the words standing for God
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• While writing the titles of stories, essays, etc., we capitalise the first word, all the other words except articles, prepositions and conjunctions
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