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 Capital letters are used at the beginning of a sentence. The first
word of every sentence must always begin with a capital letter.

 Capital letters are used to begin names (proper nouns). Proper nouns

are not just people’s names, but all names – for example, names of

countries, buildings, streets, rivers, days and months.

River Thames September Thursday

Managing Director Buckingham Palace

Market Street Greenlane School Australia

Director

NOTE: Common nouns like pencil, school, book and cat do not need a capital letter.
Look at the examples below:
The school is on the street. (Here, school and street are common nouns.)
Greenlane School is on Market Street. (Here, school and street are proper nouns
and have capital letters.)

 The word ‘I’ is always written as a capital letter.

There was a loud noise and I quickly ran away.

 The words in titles begin with a capital letter.

NOTE: Some A Traveller’s Guide To Walks In Derbyshire
people choose
not to put a

capital for the
small words
like and, to, in A Traveller’s Guide to Walks in Derbyshire
and the.

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