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Capital Letter

THINGS THAT CAPITAL LETTERS ARE NOT

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STOP AND THINK

If capital letters are not punctuation marks, why should we be interested in them?

If you know how to end a sentence, you need to know how to start one, too.

The FIRST WORD OF A SENTENCE starts with a capital letter.

A customer returned to the optician’s with a pair of glasses he had bought the previous day. He complained that the glasses were useless. The optician took the man outside and asked him to look up at the sky. Surprised, the customer looked into the sky. Hurriedly, the optician asked the customer what he could see. The man said, ‘I can see the sun,’ to which the optician replied as loudly as she could, ‘Ninety-three million miles and you’re complaining!’