![]() The way to deal with these is to write out the phrase and have a look. Examples of this include HiFi, which is short for ‘High Fidelity’, and SciFi, short for science fiction. To make this clear, here are some examples: British Broadcasting Corporationįor contractions, capitalise the initial letters of words, but not subsequent letters within the same word.Ĭontractions are like acronyms, but also include one or more letters from within the same word. The easiest way to work this out is to write out the full title, and then you can see which words don’t need to be capitalised. If you use the more general noun rather than the proper noun, this should not be capitalised.Īcronyms generally work like title case: you capitalise the important words, and not ‘and’, ‘of’, ‘for’ and so on. However, in most cases, proper nouns start with a capital letter.Ĭaution is needed however, even when you are referring to a specific place or thing. Examples include iPhone, eBay and oneworld Alliance. There are exceptions to this rule and in marketing sometimes lower-case characters are purposefully used for some proper nouns. ![]() Proper nouns (nearly) always start with a capital letter. See our pages on Grammar for more information. Proper nouns name something specific, for example, Jane, John, Oxford University, Denver, Qantas, Microsoft, Everest, Sahara. ‘To’, however, is not important and therefore not capitalised. In title case, in this example, ‘Use’, although small, is an important word in the title, and should therefore be capitalised. Using the title of this article as an example: Sentence case: “When to use capital letters” Title case: “When to Use Capital Letters” However, it’s good to understand the rules, in case you are required to use title case at any point. Most academic journals and standard referencing systems, for instance, prefer what is known as ‘sentence case’, with a single initial capital. ‘ Title Case’, with all the important words capitalised, is rather out of fashion at the moment. In titles, capitalise only the important words, not minor words such as ‘and’ and ‘but’. You should use a capital letter after a colon with US spelling but not with UK spelling. The use of a capital after a colon (:) varies depending on whether you are writing in British or US English, just as the spelling of 'capitalisation' and 'capitalization' are different in British and US English. She told herself – was it acceptable to talk to oneself? – that the answer was obvious. Is it always necessary to use capitals to start a sentence? The answer is definitely yes. ![]() However if in the sentence you have a clause in parenthesis (brackets) or sequence separated by dashes, and if these end with a question mark or exclamation mark, you should continue with lower case after the second bracket or dash. If the previous sentence ends with a question mark or exclamation mark, you should also use a capital letter, ? and !, like full stops, indicate the end of a sentence. This means that, after a full stop, you always use a capital letter. ![]() When to Use Capital Letters Rule 1: To Start a Sentence Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To ![]()
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