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Writing Skills

                 Writing skill is an important part of communication. It is an ability to express your ideas or thoughts. A good
                 writing skill uses perfect words to express the accurate meaning of the message with more clarity. For this, a good
                 command over a language plays a very important role. Let us study about various aspects which are important for
                 having writing skills.

                 Capitalisation

                 Capitalisation means writing the first alphabet of a word in uppercase. In English grammar, we cannot decide on
                 our own to write anything in capital. We follow the rules of capitalisation whenever we write anything. It gives
                 emphasis on certain words used at different places.

                 Some of the basic rules of capitalisation which we all should remember in our basic writing skills are listed below:
                    • Beginning of a sentence: It is marked by capitalising the first letter in a sentence. For example:
                      ✶ My computer class is very interesting.
                      ✶ We are going for a movie today.
                    • Proper Nouns: Capitalise the first letter of a proper noun like name of a person, place or an organisation.
                   For example:
                      ✶ New Delhi is the capital of India.
                      ✶ My friend Rohit loves to play cricket.

                    • Days of week, months, and holidays: Always remember to capitalise the first letter of days of week like Sunday,
                   Monday, etc., months like June, August, etc., and holidays/festivals like Republic Day, Diwali, etc., but not the
                   seasons like winter, spring, summer, etc. Let us look at an example:
                      ✶ Every year Republic Day is celebrated in India on 26 January.

                    • The Pronoun "I": Pronoun "I" is a reference to yourself and should always be capitalised. For example:
                      ✶ Reema and I are going for a picnic.
                      ✶ I love to read books before I go to sleep.
                    • Directions: The directions like North, South, etc. are written in capital only when they are referred to as locations.
                   For example:
                      ✶ I am heading towards South.
                    • Titles that appear before names: The titles like President, Principal, Mr., Captain, etc. that appear before names
                   are written with the first letter in capital. For example:
                      ✶ Mr. Singh is a good man.

                      ✶ President Peter gave a wonderful speech.

                 Punctuation Marks
                 These are the symbols used to help the reader understand the proper meaning of a sentence and where to pause
                 or stop. Let us learn about some of the punctuation marks in detail.


                 Full Stop or Period (.)
                 Full stop or period is used at the end of a sentence. We also use it to shorten a word to form an abbreviation. For
                 example, Mr. for Mister, Col. for Colonel.






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