Question

Which sentence is capitalized correctly?
A) .Carlotta and i love halloween.
B) ..carolotta and I love Halloween.
C) ...Carlotta and I love Halloween
D) ....Carlotta and I love Halloween.

Answer 1

Hint: There are certain capitalization rules in grammar that are important in the construction of sentences such as identifying the beginning of the sentence, end of the sentence, some proper noun or some word on which the emphasis is to be laid. On the basis of those rules, we have to identify which of the above-given sentences is capitalized correctly.

Complete answer:
Let us first get aware of the rules related to capitalization in a sentence.
- We always capitalize the first word of every sentence whether it is in paragraph form or simple sentence form.
- We always capitalize proper nouns mentioned in a sentence such as names of people, places, titles, days, months, holidays, nationalities, languages, cities, countries, some specific events of great importance.
- Sometimes we also capitalize a singular common noun when we are specifically addressing someone. For e.g. The wait is over as the Chief Guest has arrived.
- We only capitalize after a full stop or first word of any phrase/quote/sentence in inverted or double inverted commas. We do not capitalize a word after comma, colon, semi-colon etc.
- We do not capitalize names of seasons or directions. We capitalize ‘I’.

In the given options Carlotta is a proper noun, ‘I’ is a pronoun and Halloween is the name of a holiday. For a sentence to be correct all of these options have to be written in capital. Therefore, option D is the correct answer. And the sentence must end with a full stop which is missing in option C.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘D’ i.e, - Carlotta and I love Halloween.

Note: ‘I’ is the only pronoun that is capitalized in a sentence irrespective of its position in a sentence. It is capitalized as it is referring to a particular person it is ‘referring’ to you. However, ‘me’ cannot be capitalized despite referring to a particular individual because it usually forms the object of a sentence and not the subject.