Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

Butterfly by Another Name
Capitalization
Punctuation and capitalization

Always capitalize the following:

✵ The pronoun I

✵ Proper nouns

✵ Proper adjectives

✵ Initials

✵ Titles when they come before a name

✵ The days of the week and the months of the year

✵ The names of cities, states, countries, and continents

✵ The names of rivers, lakes, oceans, mountains, and other geographical sites

✵ The names of streets and avenues

✵ The names of public and religious holidays

✵ The names of companies, organizations, agencies, and clubs

✵ The first word in a sentence

Snow fell through the night.

✵ The first word in a quotation

Sharon said, “The book report is due Friday.”

✵ The first word, last word, and all important words in the titles of books, poems, songs, movies, TV shows, and plays

Book: Bridge to Terabithia

Poem: “A Patch of Old Snow”

Song: “America the Beautiful”

Movie: 101 Dalmatians

TV show: The Simpsons

Play: Beauty and the Beast

✵ All of the words of the greeting of a letter (Only capitalize the first word of the closing of a letter.)

Dear Uncle Jim,

Sincerely yours,

Yours very truly,

✵ Most abbreviations

8.29 Butterfly by Another Name

Butterflies were not always called butterflies. What was an earlier name for a butterfly?

To answer the question, find the correct capitalization for each item below. Write the letter of each answer in the space above its number at the bottom of the page.