Capital and comparing with adjectives adverbs preposition 15

• Basic rules for capitalizing:

  1. Capitalize the first word in an independent question within a sentence
  2. Capitalize the first word in each item in a list or outline
  3. Capitalize the first word of greeting or closing in a written business message
  4. capitalize proper nouns
  5. Capitalize the word "the" preceding the name of an organization when "the" is part of the legal name
  6. Capitalize countries, nationalities, and language
  7. Capitalize days of the week, months, holidays, events, and periods
  8. Capitalize sporting events
  9. Capitalize references to a supreme being or people that are considered holy
• capitalization rules regarding punctuation:

  1. When a sentence is set off by dashes or parenthesis within another sentences, don't capitalize the first word after unless it is a proper noun, the pronoun "I", or the first word of a quotation
  2. You don't capitalize the first word following a colon unless it is a proper noun
• Capitalizing imaginative proper nouns:

  1. Capitalize imaginative proper nouns that designate particular people, places, or things
  2. Capitalize imaginative names that designate specific places or areas. only capitalize compass points when they designate definite regions or are part of a proper name
• Capitalizing prepositions in titles: Don't capitalize prepositions in titles unless they have four or more letters. this does have exception, like if the preposition is part of a brand
• adjectives derived from proper nouns: Capitalize them
• Capitalizing titles of honor and respect:

  1. capitalize official titles of honor and respect when they precede personal names
  2. Do not capitalize titles of honor and respect when the personal name is set off by commas before and after
  3. Do not capitalize titles of honor and respect when they follow a personal name or are replacing a personal name unless these titles are high ranking national, state, and international officials
• Capitalizing corporate titles and other corporate matters:

  1. titles of corporate or organizational officials are not capitalized when they replace a name
  2. organizational terms are capitalized when they are the actual names of units within one's own organization
  3. Don't capitalize organizational terms when they are modified by a word other than "The"
• capitalizing seasons: Don't capitalize seasons unless they are personified
• Capitalizing in reference to academia:

  1. capitalize specific degrees of honor only when they follow a personal name
  2. Capitalize abbreviations of academic degrees
  3. Don't capitalize classifications or majors except for those containing proper nouns
  4. Capitalize specific course titles
• Capitalizing abbreviations: capitalized acronyms require no periods unless they are abbreviations of geographic locations and a few expressions
• Comparisons using adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions:

  1. for single syllable adjectives and adverbs, the comparative degree is adding "er" and superlative degree is adding "est"
  2. for two syllable adjectives and adverbs, the comparative degree is adding "er" or by adding more and less, and superlative degree is adding "est" or by adding most and least
  3. for three or more syllable adjectives and adverbs, the comparative degree is adding more and less before the initial word, and superlative degree is adding most and least before the initial word
• comparative and superlatives for people, places, and things:

  1. when referring to two people, places, or things, use the comparative form
  2. When referring to more than two people. places, or things, use the superlative form
  3. When comparing a person or thing within the group to which it belongs, use the superlative
  4. When comparing a person or thing with individual members, use the comparative
• Between and among:

  1. use between for one to one or any number of elements as long as the elements are separate
  2. use among when referring to indistinct or nonspecific relationships or when referring to more than two people or things