English one

Capital letters

 

We are going to start our look at English by looking at Capital letters.

 

When do we use a capital letter?

We always use a capital letter at the start of a sentence.

We always use a capital letter for the names of places, people and titles (proper nouns).

We always use a capital I for talking about yourself

Try these examples. Put the capital letters in the correct places

1. where is the toy shop?

2. can you meet me at peter's house on friday?

3. the great ship titanic pulled out of southampton into the english channnel.

4 "where are you going" asked mr fern.

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1. Where is the toy shop?

2. Can you meet me at Peter's house on Friday?

3. The great ship Titanic pulled out of Southampton into the English Channel.

4 "Where are you going?" asked Mr Fern.

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Rewrite this short section putting in the capital letters where you think they should go

if you look out over the city of birmingham you can see a vast jungle of large buildings.

birmingham is a great industrial city.

when i was very young david and I used to visit the city every weekend. we would travel down on a friday and stay till Sunday. the one place I always wanted to visit was the bullring in the centre of birmingham, I just loved the idea of seeing this place. I didn't know that the bullring was a shopping centre.

 

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Did you get them all?

If you look out over the city of Birmingham you can see a vast jungle of large buildings.

Birmingham is a great industrial city.

When I was very young David and I used to visit the city every weekend. We would travel down on a Friday and stay till Sunday. The one place I always wanted to visit was the Bullring in the centre of Birmingham, I just loved the idea of seeing this place. I didn't know that the bullring was a shopping centre.

That was too bad was it? In our next section we will be looking at nouns.

Good luck

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