- The State is based on exploitation.
- The Government has issued an edict of war.
We do not use a capital in such expressions as:
- Church and state, state affairs; they occupy a large territory, etc.
484. In directing letters or other matter for the mail, capitalize all words except prepositions, conjunctions or articles. These should be capitalized only when they begin a line.
Exercise 1
Draw a line under each word in the following that should be begun with a capital:
john joffre, lake michigan, day, thursday, friday, spring, august, december, germany, country, france, man, jones, smith, doctor, doctor george, professor moore, girl, mary, susan, methodist, mohammedan, church, party, republican party, socialist, company, national electric light company, river, mississippi river, the red river, essex county, state of illinois, iowa, railway, new york, new york central railway, the french revolution, novel, the sea wolf, poem, arrows in the gale, american.
Exercise 2
Notice carefully the following quotations and sentences and capitalize every word that should begin with a capital letter.
- iron, the twin brother of fire, the first born out of the matrix of the earth, a witness everlasting to the glory of thy labor, am i, o man.
- therefore i say unto you, banish fear from your hearts.
- but ye, plebs, populists, people, rebels, mob, proletariat, live and abide forever.
- and they came here from all parts of the earth, the syrians and the armenians, the thracians and the tartars, the jews, the greeks and the romans, the gauls and the angles and the huns and the hibernians, even from the deserts of the sands to the deserts of ice they came to listen unto his words.
- marx and engels wrote the communist manifesto.
- its closing words are; working men of all countries unite.
- italy was the last of the great powers of europe to become involved in the war.
- john randolph submitted an amendment to the constitution providing that the judges of the supreme court of the united states shall be removed by the president on the joint address of both houses of congress.
- eugene v. debs spent six months in woodstock jail for exercising his right of free speech.
- col. the abbreviation for colorado, is easily confused with cal. the abbreviation for california.
- the people's college is a college maintained by the working class.
- william jennings bryan won his first nomination for president of the united states by a very dramatic speech delivered in the national democratic convention.
- marion craig wentworth, a socialist playwright, has written a play called "war brides."
- the play closes with these words; a message to the emperor: i refuse to bear my child until you promise there shall be no more war.
- olive schreiner's "woman and labor" is full of fascinating thought.