Capitalization Errors
Choose the improperly capitalized word(s):
My Black Cat is named Edmund
What are black and cat?
Which word(s) should be italicized?
I read an article about women in India in Time magazine.
What is Time?
This is the number of lines traditionally used to write addresses on letters.
What is three?
Indicate which word needs a comma after it:
"No more" Cindy said to the kind man.
Capitalization:
I met bishop David at the rectory.
What is Bishop?
(A proper form of address)
Choose the improperly capitalized word(s):
I went to the grocery store with my Mom
What is mom?
Which words should be italicized?
Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
(a musical album)
What is Dark Side of the Moon?
Which word should have a period after it?
1246 Leonard St NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49505
What is St.?
This word is used to indicate a conversation between two or more people
What is "dialogue"?
Titles:
My favorite short stories are "The Ransom of Red Chief" and The Gift of the Magi, both by O. Henry.
What is "The Gift of the Magi"?
Choose the improperly capitalized word(s):
About a decade after the American revolution, the constitution was signed in 1789.
What are Revolution and Constitution?
Which title is incorrectly formatted?
My favorite episode of "Spongebob" is "Band Geeks".
What is Spongebob?
Choose the correct response to this question: What needs to be capitalized in a letter address?
A. The name of the city/town
B. The letters of the state initials
C. Both A. and B.
What is C.?
This type of quotation summarizes someone else's words inexactly and thus does not need quotation marks.
What is an indirect quoation?
"I've never heard of the Sears Tower," Calliope said with confusion, "I wonder where that is."
What is "confusion,"?
It should be a period, not a comma.
Choose the improperly capitalized word(s):
The catholic church is made up of bishops, priests, and laypeople.
What are Catholic and Church
Which words should be in quotation marks?
Ernest Hemingway wrote novels like For Whom the Bell Tolls and short stories like Hills Like White Elephants.
What is "Hills Like White Elephants"?
Which word is missing a comma after it?
We visited 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500
What is NW?
Indicate which word in the following sentence is improperly capitalized:
"After we go to the lighthouse," she said to John, "Let's get some ice cream."
What is "let's"?
Letter Address:
Scout McCatto Sr.,
17 Charlotte Dr.
Churchville, PA 01234
What is "Sr.,"?
There is no need for a comma at the end of the line
Choose the improperly capitalized word(s):
My family always goes to lake Superior on Christmas eve to exchange presents.
What are Lake and Eve?
Which words should be italicized and capitalized?
I read a review of the avengers in the new york times
What are The Avengers and The New York Times
Which line of a letter address should the building or apartment number go on?
What is the second line?
Indicate where there should be a comma in the following sentence:
"Who put these Lucky Charms in the pantry?" Jack asked.
Trick question! There should not be a comma in that sentence at all.
"April is the cruelest month," T.S. Eliot famously wrote at the beginning of "The Waste Land", an epic poem that is one of the most well-known works of modernist literature.
What is "The Waste Land"?
This is an epic poem, a longer work, and thus needs to be italicized.