Capital letters

As Lauren planned the final semester of her master’s degree program, she asked herself an age-old question: Should I do a paper, or a project? At first consideration, the rules about when to capitalize, or when to use a capital letter to begin a word, seem elementary: capitalize a letter when starting a sentence. But […]

The usage of capital letters is one of the elementary aspects of English punctuation. And rules for capitalization are among the first that most students of the language learn. However, capitalization can still get quite tricky, and confusions about whether capital letters are appropriate or right in certain situations often arise even in seasoned English […]