Last week we talked about capitalizing words in the business world. Today we’re going to talk about capitalization in general. If you recall, in English, we capitalize proper nouns—words that name a specific thing or person, words such as “Richard” and “Helen”—and we lowercase words that are common nouns that could be used to describe general things—words such as “boy” and “girl.” We also have common adjectives and proper adjectives that follow similar rules. Honorifics Let’s start with what we call honorifics – “doctor,” “professor,” and “dean” are honorifics you might find on an academic campus. Then we have “mister,” “judge,”…
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