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EXPLOREWriting
Small letters Capital (= big) letters
a, b, c, d ... A, B, C, D ...

8 a We use capital letters for:

Not ...
the word ‘I’. I’m a student. i’m a student.
the start of a sentence. This is my car. this is my car.
names. I’m Omar Farid. I’m omar farid.
My car is a Fiat. My car is a fiat.
towns and countries. I live in Tokyo. I live in tokyo.
I’m from Russia. I’m from russia.

Look at these words. Which words have capital letters? Write them correctly.

1 hitachi Hitachi
2 student ✓
3 the usa
4 photo
5 china
6 paris
7 barack obama
8 car
9 you
10 brazil
11 toyota
12 new york

b Write these sentences correctly. Add capital letters.

1 i’m from oxford. it’s a town in england. where are you from?

2 hi! my name is brigitte neumann. i’m a student in berlin.

3 my mother lives in london, but i live in australia.

Writing reference 4 we have two children, a girl and a boy.

and practice,
Punctuation, p54
Capitals (1), p55

For more practice, go to Unit 1 of the Self-study DVD-ROM. 7