Elementary

Writing
Using Capital Letters
Look at the example sentences and match the rule below to the correct example.

Places Nationalities, languages and religions The pronoun ‘I’

The first word in a sentence Names of people and their titles

Days of the week Months

RULE EXAMPLE

My name is John Smith.

Monday Wednesday

Queen Elizabeth
President Obama
Mr and Mrs Beckham
English Emirati Muslim

Oman Jordan Christian

France the River Nile

Muroor Road Asia

In 1980, I came to Abu Dhabi.

February December

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 Elementary
Writing
Using Capital Letters
Think of an example for each of these categories:

Work with your group. Change all the necessary letters into capitals

1. every monday, i go to work in paris.

2. my father's name is harry and my mother's name is clarice.

3. my wife, silvia, is from new york.

4. paolo is a pilot. he's from milan in italy.

5. good morning, mrs jones. how are you?

6. i'm english but i also speak french and spanish.

7. my name's peter, but call me pete.

8. my address is 218, palmer street, chicago, illinois.

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