Question

Which sentence is correctly capitalized and punctuated?
A) When you are done eating, clear your place
B) When you are done Eating, clear your place
C) When you are done eating, clear your Place
D) When you are done eating, clear your place.

Answer 1

Hint: Punctuation refers to the use of marks, space or symbols to understand the meaning of the sentence. Punctuations include semicolon, comma, full-stop, question marks etc. Any conventional sign that adds to the meaning of the sentence is included in punctuations. Capitalization is the correct use of capital letter in a sentence.

Complete answer:
A) When you are done eating, clear your place
The sentence is incorrect as the full-stop is missing at the end of the sentence. The full-stop is used at the end of the sentence to indicate the finishing of the sentence.

B) When you are done Eating, clear your place
The sentence is incorrect as the full-stop at the end of the sentence is missing, also the ‘E’ in ‘Eating’ is supposed to be small lettered as ‘eating’ is a verb and only proper nouns can have capital letter in between a sentence.

C) When you are done eating, clear your Place
The sentence is incorrect as the full stop is the full-stop at the end of the sentence is missing, also the ‘P’ in ‘Place’ is supposed to be small lettered as it is a common noun and not a proper noun as only proper nouns can have capital letter in between a sentence.

D) When you are done eating, clear your place.
This sentence is correctly punctuated and capitalized. As there is a comma to separate the sentence to give it’s meaning and full-stop at the end to mark the ending of the sentence. Every letter is correctly capitalized with only first word’s initial letter being capital.

Note: Things to remember:
- Full-stop is a ‘must’ to put at the end of the sentence as it tells that the sentence has ended here and now the second sentence is to start.
- Comma is important to put in the places where there is a need of conjunction to join the two sentences with independent meanings to have one meaning.
- The initial letter of the first word of sentence is always capitalized. Within the sentence all the words are in small form except for the proper nouns. The first letter of proper noun used within the sentence is capitalized as they specify a particular person, place, situation etc.