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Capital Letters and Full Stops
Course modified date: 12 يوليو 2022
Learn about capital letters and full stops and how and when to use them. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.
Introduction
Capital lettersCapital letters are used for a number of different purposes, which include the following:
· At the beginning of a sentence. For example: The dog barked loudly. (The capital letter is at the beginning of the word ‘the’).
· For the personal pronoun ‘I’. For example: Yesterday, I went to the zoo. (The capital letter has been used the for the word ‘I’).
· For proper nouns (specific names of people, places and things). For example: Rashid went to Paris in April. (The words Rashid, Paris and April all have capital letters at the beginning).
Full stops
The most common way that a full stop is used is to mark the end of a sentence.
The full stop marks the end of the sentence, unless a question mark or exclamation mark is being used instead.
Sometimes a sentence is made up a of a single word, such as for a greeting or command. Even a one word sentence still needs a full stop at the end.
You will learn
- Capital letters at the beginning of a sentence
- Capital letters for the personal pronoun 'I'
- Capital letters for proper nouns
- Full stops to mark the end of a sentence
- Full stops to indicate an abbreviation
- Full stops for ellipsis
- Comma splices
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