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- LESSON 9 THINGS I
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- Capitals identify specific things within a class of things:
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- 1. Planes, trains, ships, etc... ->
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- Airforce 1, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Titanic, Appolo 11
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- 2. Publications, plays, movies, works of art or sculptor or music ->
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- Newsweek, Merchant of Venice, Topgun, The Thinker
- the Washington Post, Time, Life, Macbeth, The Mesiah,
- Die Meistersinger, 1812 Overture, Mona Lisa
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- 3. Commercial products, trade marks, brand names, market grades ->
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- Tylenol, Teflon, Levis, Popsicle, Diet Pepsi, Wheaties
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- Coca Cola -but- have a coke...
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- What type of vehicles are the following: Queen Mary, Pequod,
- Hindenberg, Studebaker, Enola Gay, Empire State Express?
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- They are ship, ship, dirigible, car, plane, and train in that
- order. You capitalized the specifics and not the general,
- didn't you?
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- The top video rentals are: Grumpy Old Men
- The Getaway
- On Deadly Ground
- The Pelican Brief
- The Fox and the Hound
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- My grocery list included: Crest Saltines Snickers
- vinegar Crisco non-fat yogurt
- Trix bread pickles
- milk Pepsi Twinkies
- (My grocery list vividly contrasts the specific with the general.)
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- "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
- On, Comet! on, Cupid! on Donder and Blitzen!
- To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall!
- Now dash away, dash away, dash away all!"
- (Source: "A Visit From Saint Nicholas", poem, Clement C. Moore)
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