The capital letters are: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
The small (lower case) letters are: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
In modern English, most nouns are written with an initial small
(lower case) letter. However in the following cases we use capital letters.
- Names of particular people, places or things
John, Anna, Mr Smith, the Rolling
Stones, the United States of America, the Daily Express (a newspaper), the Jupiter Symphony
- The titles of particular people
Mr and Mrs (or Ms*); Miss (or Ms*)
Cynthia Brown,
the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Anne, the Duke of Royston, the President, the Prime Minister
- Days of the week, months of the year and public holidays
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday
January, February, March,
April, May,
June, July,
August, September,
October, November,
December
Easter, Christmas Day,
New Year's
Eve, Independence
Day
- Nationalities
the English, an Indonesian, a Frenchman
*Ms is a currently accepted neutral from which can replace Mrs or
Miss.
Notes
- We also use a capital letter to start the first word of a new sentence:
The children looked out of the
window.
It was snowing outside.
The personal pronoun I is always written with a capital.
- Titles of books, plays and films are also written with initial capital (usually only the important words - nouns, adjectives and verbs) e.g. Great Expectations, A Student's Grammar of English, The Da Vinci Code, The Rainbow Troops.
- Chapter headings may be written with capitals or small letters.
e.g. Chapter Three: The Management of the Economy
Chapter Three: The
management of the economy
Source: Allsop, Jake. 1990. Cassell's Students' English Grammar. Indonesia: Binarupa Aksara.
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