Topics:
- Capital letters
- Period
- Question mark
- Exclamation mark
- Quotation marks
Capital letters
We always begin a sentence with a capital letter. We begin new line of a poem or rhyme with a capital letter. We begin a capital letter at the beginning of an exclamation and the first word in direct speech. Capital letters are used at the beginning of proper nouns (including: special places, special events and special names). They are used for titles, headings, headlines, days of the week, months of the year, and the personal “I”.
Little Bo-Peep
BY MOTHER GOOSE
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can’t tell where to find them;
Leave them alone, and they’ll come home,
Bringing their tails behind them.
Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating.
But when she awoke, she found it a joke.
For they were still all fleeting.
Then she took her little crook.,
Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they’d left their tails behind them.
It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray
Into a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails, side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.
She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,
And ran o’er hill and dale;
And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
To tack each sheep to its tail.
Source: Childcraft (1980)
Passage: Read the passage below and observe the capital letters.
Sharon ran out of the house. It was New Year’s Day and she wanted to see the fireworks. I met Sharon by the bridge three miles from Saint Michaels R.C. Church along the Royal Main Road. She held on to a book under her arms. “The Ugly Coat” was the name of the book and it was written by Eva Lee Hernandez. “Can I borrow that book when you are done with it?” I asked Sharon. I knew Ms. Hernandez, the author. “Sure!” was all she said.
