Capitalisation and Punctuation

08/02/2021

6th lesson

Licence 2langue et civilisation islamique

Capitalisation and punctuation

Good morning 

A/ capitalisation:

Here are some common points that might help you use capitalisation.

Capitalise:

1- first word in sentences

Ex: My brother is interested in languages.

First word in direct quotations 

Ex:"My sistersoeaks English."

First word in the greeting and closing letters

Ex: Dear Yasmine,

Sincerely,

2/Proper nouns

Pepole/ initials

Mohamed, J.F.Kennedy

Streets

High streets

Cities/countries/continents

Algiers/Algeria/Oran/Africa

Areas/regions

South Pole/Midwest

Months/ days

June/ Monday

Schools 

Mehdi Bouabdelli School

Organisation

The United Nations

Companies

Sonatrach Company

Buildings

World trade center

Language

English/Arabic/French

Planets

Earth/Neptune

3/Proper adjectives

Italian/ South African

4/Titles 

Books/ story/ poem/ song/play/film....

The Royal Family/Titanic

B/ Punctuations 

Here are some common rumes that might help use punctuation

1we use a full stop,a question mark,an exclamation mark at the end of a sentence.

We use a comma:

A) to separate words in a series

B) after introductory words or phrases

C/ to set of interrupting words

D) after a dependent clause that begins a sentence

F)to separate numerals or items in a date

After the greeting in a freindly letter

After the closing in all letters

2/ we use quotation marks

A/Enclosd all quoted words within written quotation marks

B/ A full stop,question mark,exclamation mark...of a direct quotation is placed inside the quotation marks

Ex: "Welcom to England,"Betty said.