[c.] Begin an adjective which designates a language or a race with a capital.
- Right: A Norwegian peasant, Indian arrowheads, English literature, the study of French.
[d.] In the titles of books or themes capitalize the first word and all other important words. Prepositions, conjunctions, and articles are usually not important.
- Right: The English Novel in the Time of Scott, War and Peace, Travels with a Donkey, When I Slept under the Stars.
[e.] Miscellaneous uses. Capitalize the pronoun I, the interjection O, titles that accompany a name, and abbreviations of proper names.
- Right: Battery F, 150 F. A.; Mobile, Ala.; Dr. Stebbins.
Exercise:
- the teacher said, "let me read you a famous soliloquy." he began: "to be, or not to be: that is the question."
- the chinese laundry man does not write out his lists in english.
- the la fayette tribune says that a Principal of a School has been elected to congress.
- mr. woodson, the lecturer, said that "the title of a book may be a poem." he mentioned christmas eve on lonesome by john fox, jr.
- i like architecture. as i approached the british museum, i noticed the ionic colonnade that runs along the front. the first room i visited was the one filled with marbles which lord elgin brought from the parthenon at athens.
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In manuscript, a horizontal line drawn under a letter or word is a sign for the printer to use italic type.