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- LESSON 4 PROPER NOUNS
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- A "proper noun" is the legal, official, or unique name of a person, place,
- or thing. It identifies a particular item within a class of items.
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- Capitalize the first word of a proper noun.
- Thereafter:
- Capitalize words of 4 or more letters.
- Capitalize words less than 4 letters only if they are essential to
- the noun's identity.
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- Observe which words are (and are not) capitalized ->
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- pamphlet Of Human Bondage magazine
- For Whom the Bell Tolls H. G. Wells Westward Ho!
- Port Au Prince dictionary Of Mice and Men
- Webster's New World Thesaurus IRS The Wizard of Oz
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- Capitalize adjectives derived from proper nouns (even if modifying a
- common noun) ->
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- American student, Marxist writer -but- northern border
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- The capital letter alerts the reader that a word is used to
- identify rather than categorize a noun: I read of mice and
- men in the library then I read "Of Mice and Men" in the
- library!
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- Do you know the authors of these classics: City of God
- War and Peace
- The Prince
- You may find the answer in an encyclopedia or dictionary.
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- You win the prize if you answered: Aquinas, Tolstoy, Machiavelli.
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- The Mexican border towns are the objects of one-day visits
- by American tourists. They buy Mexican goods and the Mexican
- shopkeepers prosper.
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- Have you ever noticed your impression of the writer of a personal letter you
- have received? Is it written in good penmanship, well organized, and uses
- well structured sentences or is it is sloppy, rambling, and uses incomplete
- or incoherent sentences? Remember this the next time YOU write a letter!
- What will your reader think of you!
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- Scrooge never painted out old Marley's name. There it stood, years
- afterward, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known
- as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called him
- Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all
- the same to him. {Source: "A Christmas Carol", short story, Dickens, 1843}
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- { Notice how profound the preceding paragraph becomes
- when properly capitalized. }
- Capitalization and, unfortunately, calories make a difference!
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- on and, unfortunately, calories make a difference!
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