Capitals

Names of People, Places, Organisations & Brands

A wobbly 4:55 email drops a capital from a company name — how names actually work

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Capital When Specific (Titles, Directions, Sun/Moon/Earth)

A red line under 'Mum' in a history essay — when family terms and titles need a capital

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Title Case or Sentence Case? Titles & Headlines

You've finished the report and now you're stuck: capitalise every word, or just the first

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Capitals After Colons, in Quotations & Around Punctuation

A colon, then a capital or lowercase letter — the rule that actually holds

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The Trap of Over-Capitalisation

That Friday email where every Department and Team suddenly needs a capital letter — when to stop

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Capitalising the First Word of a Sentence

Re-reading that 4:55 Friday email, the second paragraph forgets to capitalise a sentence

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Proper Nouns & Proper Adjectives — The Core Rule

Your essay gets a pink underline under 'romeo' — proper nouns and adjectives, capitalised for good

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Special Capitalisation Cases: Getting "I", Acronyms, Brand Styling and Religious Terms Right

IPhone lowercases its own name, yet English never lowercases I — the quirks worth knowing

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Capitalisation in Letters, Emails, Headings & Lists

Stuck between Dear and Hi with an empty subject line — capitalisation for emails, headings and lists, sorted

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Capitalisation — Complete Map

You already capitalise Tuesday, English and Google without thinking — here's the map for everything else

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