ENGL 003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Marrah Mountains, Exclamation Mark
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Capitalization is another signal that clarifies meaning . We expect the writer to signal the beginning of a sentence with a capital letter and the end of a sentence with a full stop ( period ) question mark , or an exclamation mark . We also expect the writer to signal important titles and names by capitalization . If the writer capitalization north , east we know that he is referring to a specific section of the country , if he does not capitalization. North , east , we know the reference is to a direction . When we are skimming a page , looking may be one of our best cues to quick identification . Capitalization rules are listed below : capitalize the first word in a sentence : Yes , it cartainly had been an eventful day : capitalize the name of people : Ahmed ali : capitalize the pronoun i :
