Questions tagged [capitalization]
This tag is for questions about the proper usage of capital letters.
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Capitalize the first letter in the quotation in the middle of the sentence
Do I need to capitalize the first letter in the quotation in these two examples? If so, will I need to put a comma before the quotation mark?
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capitalization: names of majors
I know academic subjects like math, history, physics, etc., are not capitalized, and course names such as Economics 101 begin with a capital letter. What about names of a person's major?
Do we say
He ...
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Where to put question mark in the sentence?
Which one of the three sentences is correct regarding the place of "!" and capitalizing "because"?
Could you please explain to me the course enrolment process? Because it is a bit unclear for me....
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Capitalizing the suffix “-like”
Should I capitalize the suffix -like in a title if it is hyphenated?
For example:
Diamond-Like Carbon Coating or Diamond-like Carbon Coating
Metal-Like Compounds or Metal-like Compounds
Which is ...
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is there a rule to capitalize a canonical name, a scientific and technical term?
k-means clustering is a scientific and technical term.
Wikipedia and some books use "k-means clustering" instead of "K-Means Clustering", while some other posts use "K-Means Clustering".
Is there a ...
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capital or small letter in the first letter after a term definition double colons
If I am using double colons to define a term, shall I start the first letter after it with capital or small?
Example:
Top-websites: Websites that are visited by more than # users each day.
Or,
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Capitalization rule
Instead of joining air force, he joined police department.
Instead of joining British air force, he joined British police department.
As per my knowledge air force and police are common nouns so we ...
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Capitalization in a headline
In this headline, should the word "more" be capitalized?
"Honoring Retired Employees with Twenty or more Years of
Commitment"
