CAPTION

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

Caption

Writing a
Grammar
Caption

Content Rules
 A photo caption gives readers basic
information to understand a photograph.
 It should be clear, accurate, and complete.
 It is often called as a cutline, but shorter with
only titles or sentences of one-line length.
 Writing a Caption

Make a Give Write a

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 KINDS OF CAPTION
There are some kinds of captions, (quoted from  brainly):
1. Identification bar: This caption only mentions who is in the picture.

2. Cutline: This caption mentions who is in the picture and what she/he does.

3. Summary: It consists of who the person is, what she/he does, the time, the place
and the reason of doing that. (who, what, when, where and why)

4. Expanded: This caption is more complete than Summary. It consists of how and
quotation.

5. Group identification: This caption is the same as Identification bar but there are
more than one persons in the caption.

6. Quote: It consists of someone’s saying related to the picture in the caption.

 
 
CONTENT OF PHOTO CAPTIONS

Professional standard photo captions should include:

 the identification of the people, the place of the event, and the date
when the photograph was taken in the first sentence; and

 relevant information in the next sentence to help readers understand

the picture.
RULES OF WRITING CAPTIONS
When you write a photo caption, there are some rules that you have to follow:

 Supply specific information which answer 5WH-questions.

 Use the present tense to describe action in the photo.

 Write captions in a complete sentence—mostly a declarative sentence.

 Clearly indentify the people and location that appear in the photo.

 For photograph of more than one person, identify from left to right. In case of large
groups, identify only the notable people.

 Never include personal feelings and descriptive terms which interpret them such as
beautiful, scary, sad, lovely.
 GRAMMAR IN ACTION
PUNCTUATION

 Captions normally begin with a capital letter.

 Captions should not be in italics, unless that also occurs in the main story.
 All sentences and any sentence fragments in that caption should end with a
period.
 TASK 1
1. Please give the type of the captions above.
2. Please find your own examples of the types of captions.
Do this in your exercise books. We will discuss them next week.