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Originally posted by swamp View PostSome corrections made.
On a more serious note, should it be 'South' or 'south'? (Or 'North' or 'north'...?)
Are they proper nouns? What about 'Northerner' versus 'northerner'? (I'm thinking northerner is correct.) Can the CUK grammar police help?!
When do you use a capital letter?
1. A sentence always begins with a capital
letter.
2. A proper noun, like a person’s name,
begins with a capital letter.
3. A proper noun, like a place, begins with a
capital letter.
4. Proper nouns, which are SPECIAL
names, begin with a capital letter.
(Christmas, Easter, June, Monday etc.)
In my view the 'South' is a place which exists as far as I'm concerned.The cycle of life: born > learn > work > learn > dead.Comment
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Originally posted by chris79 View PostCapital Letters
When do you use a capital letter?
1. A sentence always begins with a capital
letter.
2. A proper noun, like a person’s name,
begins with a capital letter.
3. A proper noun, like a place, begins with a
capital letter.
4. Proper nouns, which are SPECIAL
names, begin with a capital letter.
(Christmas, Easter, June, Monday etc.)
In my view the 'South' is a place which exists as far as I'm concerned.
Proper nouns (also called proper names) are nouns representing unique entities (such as London, Jupiter or Johnny), as distinguished from common nouns which describe a class of entities (such as city, planet or person).[7] Proper nouns are not normally preceded by an article or other limiting modifier (such as "any" or "some"), and are used to denote a particular person, place, or thing without regard to any descriptive meaning the word or phrase may have.
He lives in South.
we have to say:
He lives in the south.Cats are evil.Comment
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North becomes a capitalised word when it us used in a place, like North London. But if you were to say 'I am going north' it is lowercase.Comment
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