THE RULES OF CAPITALIZATION
Channel: Aesha talks
Date: 01/09/2020

THE RULES OF CAPITALIZATION
- Begin a sentence with a capital letter
- Capitalize ‘I’
- Capitalize the names of countries. Examples: Japan, America, Russia
- Capitalize national nouns and adjectives. Examples: Chinese, Russian, French, British
- Capitalize the first letter of the first word in a sentence or question.
- Capitalize proper nouns (i.e. the names of people). Examples: John, Mary, Annie
- Do not capitalize common nouns. Examples: boy, tree, flower, butterfly
- Capitalize the names of institutions, organizations etc.
- Capitalize the names of festivals. Examples: Eid, Diwali, Easter, Christmas
- He went to university.
University is a common noun and hence we do not capitalize it.
- He went to Oxford University. 
(NOT He went to oxford university.)

The names of universities, organizations, institutions, mountains, deserts and rivers are capitalized. Note that when you write the name of a university or an organization, all words in the name begin with capital letters.
Examples:
- British Broadcasting Corporation (NOT British broadcasting corporation)
- United Nations Organization (NOT United nations organization)