Capitalization & Punctuation

Capitalization is the writing of a word with its first letter in uppercase and the remaining letters in lowercase. There are rules for when to use capitalization:

Punctuation Rules in English

• the period (or full stop in British English)
• the comma
• the exclamation mark
• the question mark
• the colon
• the semicolon
• the quotation mark
• the apostrophe
• the hyphen and the dash
• parentheses and brackets