Questions tagged [capitalization]
This tag should be used for questions about when to capitalize words, such as trademarks or as a stylistic device, for example in character speech.
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Should I italicize brand names and song titles?
I'm doing the final edits to my book. I often refer to music and brand names of clothing worn to set the tone. My question is when mentioning a brand name or song and artist can I italicize the brand ...
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Capitalizing within a sentence
I am writing dialogue. I have googled this to no avail.
Jane said, "What is your vision statement?"
Mike replied, "It's 'To make men of men.'"
Should "To" be ...
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Capitalization of descriptive words referring to a proper noun
Which of the following is the correct choice for capitalizing (or not capitalizing) "bay mouth", and why?
Mission Bay is a popular tourist location, with small waves near the bay mouth.
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How do I prevent forced capitalization after a period in Scrivener?
Scrivener forces a capitalization after a period when used in initials when possessive such as J.D.’S coat. It should be J.D.’s coat. How do I change it?
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Proper capitalization of the term "software as a service"
I need to use the term "software as a service", which is abbreviated as SaaS. (There are other ancillary terms as well like Platform as a Service, Functions as a Service, Infrastructure as a ...
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Should the Table of Contents be title case?
I did read Which words in a title should be capitalized?
Now I'm asking myself when creating the "Table of Contents" for a book should I apply there the same rules for capitalization in the ...
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Capital letter after colon, in list? [duplicate]
So I'm going through a list of reasons to choose something, followed by a semicolon and then an explanation.
Aerodynamic resistance: The reason that this is important is bla bla bla...
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Should a common noun which has a specific word in a different language be capitalised?
The setting is that there is a celebration underway where people of different species (lets say, humans and elves) are attending. In the elves' language they call any celebration "Jashnak". ...
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When should we use capitalization when writing research papers?
I am wondering how many cases we should notice when using capitalization (except the word standing at the beginning of the sentences, place name) in an academic paper.
For example:
"Days of ...
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Capitalization of Section Titles
How to capitalize the words of a section title? In particular, when Should I capitalize the word "to?" Sometimes I see it capitalized and sometimes not.
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Capitalization for a thought mid-sentence [duplicate]
This is an example of something I've run into:
I felt my excitement grow at the view, with “now THIS is a true alien world!” running through my mind.
Should the "n" in "now" be ...
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Scientific report and capitalization
I'm writing a master's thesis in English, which is my second language. I have understood that I should capitalize Section, Chapter, Figure, etc., but should I also capitalize other elements that refer ...
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Is it acceptable to punctuate and capitalize a dialogue tag like a separate sentence?
When a piece of writing has a quoted sentence followed by a dialogue tag, the sentence is usually ended with a comma (inside the quotation marks) and the dialogue tag is in sentence case, like this:
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What are the rules for beginning a block quotation halfway into a quoted sentence?
I'm interested in the rules set by the Chicago Manual of Style.
If I take a block quotation that starts with the following sentence:
"To simplify: math and geometry are such and such"
And if I ...
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Autocapitalize/correct two connected words?
Let's say I have a character in my story simply called "Slime Monster". With every instance of these two words, I want both words to be capitalized and to be corrected as a pair, so if I mistype it to ...
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