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- 13. SITUATIONS II
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- LESSON 13 SITUATIONS II
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- There are situations wherein you DO NOT capitalize certain words ->
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- 1. Occupational names -> author, publisher, writer, truck driver
- (Criterion: cannot stand alone with last name as a title.)
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- I asked the lawyer, Smith, if... -but NOT- I asked lawyer Smith...
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- 2. Celestial bodies sun, mood, and earth when not contrasted with other
- celestial bodies ->
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- Tonight's a full moon. -but- The Moon is smaller than Mercury.
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- 3. Descriptive terms to describe a direction or position and not a name of
- a region ->
- Grant deployed his cavalry west of his artillery. The North was
- ready. The South expected a charge out of the eastern sun.
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- 4. A common noun substitute for an already referenced proper noun ->
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- Boston was quiet; the city seemed exhausted by the celebration.
- Ah, the Mississippi - a river overflowing with stories!
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- Russian author Leo Tolstoy seems to have written
- for reading during long Russian winters.
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- In our Solar System, the Earth is
- closer to the Sun than Jupiter.
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- In "The Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck, an Oklahoma farming
- family flees to California because the sun-parched earth would
- yield no crop. The stricken area became known as the Dust Bowl.
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- Emperor Ming always referred to Flash Gordon as the "Earthman" but
- never to Dale Arden as the "Earthwoman." Is Ming the Merciless
- a sexist?
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- Lee's army was know as the "Army of Northern Virginia" although
- it was not restricted to operate in only northern Viginia.
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- The Solid South is a political voting bloc of southern
- states so named because one political party received
- most of the bloc's votes.
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- A quest that dominated the Age of Exploration was the
- search for a passage to the East; that is, a route from
- Western Europe to China without traversing the tip of Africa.
- It was called the "Northwest Passage."
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- I walked the beach along the Pacific. How calm the ocean
- seemed after my day of turmoil. Perhaps it was late and
- she was tired, too.
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- And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
- O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
- (Source: "The Star Spangled Banner", Francis Scott Key, 1816)
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