We use capital letters at the start of every sentence, but there are some words that always need capital letters, wherever they come in a sentence.
Capital letters are needed for all the names of people, places and dates.
These are called proper nouns.
Jack
Mr Jones
London
France
High Street
Sainsbury's
Tuesday
August
Christmas
Strangely, although months and days of the weeks need capital letters, the four seasons don't!!
Book and film titles are also given capital letters. Usually all the words in the title start with a capital letter except little words like 'and' and 'the'. The first word of the title always has a capital even if it is a little word.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Sometimes we write a whole word in capital letters to make it stand out more.
NO ENTRY
'FIRE!' shouted Jimmy.
Let's have a go at using capital letters in the questions now.
