English Grammar Rules & Mistakes: Learn All of the Essentials: Writing, Speaking, Literature and Punctuation Rules Complete with 10 Key Skills and Over 200 Common Error Examples

RULE 7 – CONQUER CAPITALIZATION
It is fair to say, we have a problem with capitalization. This problem has
developed so much that we now frantically place capital letters on everything.
My advice, calm down. We are going to clear up this mess once and for all.
By the end of this chapter you will be confidently placing capital letters only
where needed. Let’s go through them one by one.
The first word of a sentence begins with a capital letter.
My mother is coming to visit us. We need to clean the entire house.
Now!
The names of the days of the week, and of the months of the year, are written
with a capital letter.
Next Friday, Tuesday, 21 January, there will be no classes.
The names of historical eras are capitalized.
Today, we will study the Iron Age.
The names of holy festivals and holidays should be capitalized.
The children were so excited they stayed awake until Christmas
morning.
The names of languages are written with a capital letter.
I am studying English literature, geography, and math.
Words that are related to a particular place must be written with a capital
letter.

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I am meeting with the French ambassador.
However, if a word related to a particular place is part of a phrase, you do not
capitalize it.
I could eat a danish pastry every morning, but I shouldn’t.
Proper nouns should have a capital letter. Be careful not to capitalize words
that look like they could be a proper noun but are in fact just a common noun.
Normally, these are the names of professions, such as doctor, president,
manager, etc.
Jessica is our new student body president.
You will find that religious names and terms are often capitalized. These may
be names of different religions, gods, important figures, and holy books.
The Quran is a holy book for Muslims.
The name of a book, play, poem, film, magazine, newspaper or piece of
music should be capitalized. Remember that whenever you have a
conjunction or article in the title, these should not be capitalized.