This blog discusses 15 basic capitalization rules for English grammar. To give you an opportunity to practice your proofreading, we have left a few spelling, punctuation, or grammatical errors in the text.
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This rule is the most basic one. Always capitalize the first word of your sentence, whether it is a proper or common name.
Times new roman: Capitalization means writing a word with its first letter in uppercase while the remaining letters in lowercase. As a general rule, in English, a capital letter is used for the first word of a sentence and for all proper nouns. Although the rules of English capitalization seem simple at first glance, it might still be complicated in academic writing. You probably know you should capitalize proper nouns and the first word of every sentence. However, in some cases, capitalization is required for the first word in a quotation and the first word after a colon. Here are the details:

This rule is the most basic one. Always capitalize the first word of your sentence, whether it is a proper or common name.
• The baby is crawling.
• Where to find my book?
• I ordered a new laptop online.
A proper noun is the specific name of a person, place, object, or organization to make it more specific such as Alice, Chicago, Tuesday. The first letter of a person’s first, middle, and last names should also be capitalized (John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thomas Alva Edison). All proper nouns -even adjectives derived from a proper noun- should be written with capital letters regardless of where they appear in a sentence.
| A proper noun is the specific name | TEST |
| A proper noun is the specific name | TESTT |
| A proper noun is the specific name | TEST |
The names of cities, towns, countries, counties, companies, religions, and political parties are also considered proper nouns and should be written with capital letters.
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