Capitalising titles
Key Notes :
✨📘 Capitalising Titles 📘✨
🔹 First Word Always Capitalised |
👉 The first word in a title is always written with a capital letter.
- Example: The Lion and the Mouse 🦁🐭
🔹 Last Word Always Capitalised |
👉 The last word in a title is also written with a capital letter.
- Example: A Trip to the Zoo 🐒🐘
🔹 Important Words Get Capitals |
👉 Capitalise nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in titles.
- Example: Harry Potter and the Secret Chamber 🪄📖
🔹 Small Words Stay Lowercase |
👉 Do not capitalise short words like:
⚡ a, an, the, and, but, or, for, nor, at, by, in, on, of, to, up
(Unless they are the first or last word in the title!)
- Example: The Cat in the Hat 🎩🐱
🔹 Proper Nouns Always Capitalised |
👉 Names of people, places, or things must always begin with a capital letter.
- Example: Adventures in New York 🏙️🗽
🌟 Quick Recap with Rules 🌟 |
- 1️⃣ First word – CAPITAL
- 2️⃣ Last word – CAPITAL
- 3️⃣ Big/important words – CAPITAL
- 4️⃣ Small words – lowercase (unless first/last)
- 5️⃣ Proper nouns – CAPITAL
💡 Examples for Practice: |
- ✔️ The Secret Garden 🌸
- ✔️ Journey to the West 🐒
- ✔️ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 🕵️♂️
Let’s practice!🖊️