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Using Capitals
We know that every sentence starts with a capital letter. Do you know where else in a sentence a capital letter should be
used? Remembering the term ‘MINTS’ helps with capitalisation. MINTS is a basic set of principles for proper capitalisation.
Each letter in the word MINTS represents one capitalisation rule.
Capitalise your
M.I.N.T.S.
M. Months and Days
My birthday is on Monday, October 21st.
I. Letter I (by itself)
If I go to the store, I buy ice cream.
Names (of people and places)
N. Carrie, who is from Kardas, would love to
go to Italy.
T. Titles (of movies, songs, and books)
I love the movie Up.
Start of Sentences
S. Capitalising is easy when you remember
M.I.N.T.S.
Punctuation
Punctuation marks, such as full stops and commas, help separate elements of a sentence and express its meaning.
Punctuation, like capitalisation, plays a crucial role in sentences and follows specific rules. Here are some frequently
utilized punctuation marks:
. ? , !
Full Stop Question Mark Comma Exclamation Mark
Shows the end of a Shows that a Join two or more Show strong
sentence question is being ideas in a sentence emphasis or strong
asked or separates items emotion
in a series
˵ ˶ : ; '
Quotation Mark Colon Semi Colon Apostrophe
Shows that word Introduce the Connected two Used to show
have been directly information that complete sentences possession or for
quoted comes after it that are related contraction of word
- / ... ( )
Hyphen Slash Ellipsis Parentheses
Form compound Used to separate Shows that Used to add extra
words letters, numbers or something has information in a
words been removed from sentence
a sentence
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