ornate penmanship, or unusual stationery, or literary affectations, but
in the force and keenness of your ideas.

=Capitals=

=81a. Begin with a capital a sentence, a line of poetry, or a quoted
sentence. But if only a fragment of a sentence is quoted, the capital
should be omitted.=

Right: He said, "The time has come."

Right: The question is, Shall the bill pass?

Right: They said they would "not take no for an answer."

Right:

"The good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust
Burn to the socket."--Wordsworth.

=b. Begin proper names, and all important words used as or in proper
names, with capitals.= Words not so used should not begin with capitals.

Right: Mr. George K. Rogers, the Principal of the Urbana High
School, a college president, the President of the Senior Class,
a senior, the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia,
three battalions of infantry, the Fourth of July, on the tenth
of June, the House of Representatives, an assembly of
delegates, a Presbyterian church, the separation of church and
state, the Baptist Church, the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, a creek known as Black Oak Creek, the
Republican Party, a party that advocates high tariff, Rocky
Mountains, The Bible, God, The Christian Era, Wednesday, in the
summer, living in the South, turning south after taking a few
steps to the east, one morning, O dark-haired Evening! italic
type, watt, pasteurize, herculean effort.

=c. Begin an adjective which designates a language or a race with a
capital.=

Right: A Norwegian peasant, Indian arrowheads, English
literature, the study of French.

=d. In the titles of books or themes capitalize the first word and all
other important words.= Prepositions, conjunctions, and articles are
usually not important.

Right: _The English Novel in the Time of Scott_, _War and
Peace_, _Travels with a Donkey_, _When I Slept under the
Stars_.

=e. Miscellaneous uses. Capitalize the pronoun _I_, the interjection _O_,
titles that accompany a name, and abbreviations of proper names.=

Right: Battery F, 150 F. A.; Mobile, Ala.; Dr. Stebbins.

Exercise:

1. the teacher said, "let me read you a famous soliloquy." he
began: "to be, or not to be: that is the question."

2. the chinese laundry man does not write ou