• People’s names
• Nations, continents, planets (Earth), stars, galaxies• Public places and regions (the South; Southeast), but NOT as a direction (“Go south 10 miles.”)
• Streets, buildings, monuments
• Cities, states, and provinces
• Days of the week and months
• Holidays
• Organizations, companies, search engines
• Formal institutions: colleges, departments, schools, government offices, courts of law
• Historical events, named historical times and documents
• Religious deities, revered persons, sacred texts
• Registered trademarks
• Names of ships, planes, and spacecraft
• Titles of courses as named/with code #: sociology, mathematics, science,
– But Sociology 102; Math 274; Earth Science 300
• A title before someone’s name: “Senator Stone” but
– DO NOT capitalize when the job title itself is used without a person’s name: the mayor; the senator; the congressman; the judge,
• Capitalize major works in a title
• Capitalize the first word of a full quoted sentence: “She lit up the room like a flare.”
• Do NOT capitalize a fragment of a quoted sentence: “...herding cats.”
• Relative’s titles unless possessive: Mother, Father, Grandmother;
• my mother; his father
(the name of an official city or national location that represents the government's main building--known as the capitol: The White House)
