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Capital confusion! - when to use capital letters

A useful PowerPoint revising when to use capital letters. Children are reminded of the rules of using capital letters, and are then given sentences to correct on their whiteboards. The answers are revealed after each sentence. Finally, they write two sentences for a partner to correct. A handy activity that could be used as a starter, or to warm up before a writing task.

Suitable for Y2 or for KS2 as a revision or support activity.

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A set of English teaching resources is available to help Key Stage 1 students learn the importance of using capital letters and full stops correctly in their writing. The lesson focuses on the fundamental rules that a sentence should always start with a capital letter and end with a full stop. Through the PowerPoint presentation, children are taught to identify and correct sentences that lack these essential punctuation marks. For instance, they are shown sentences like "it is my birthday" and instructed to rewrite them with the correct punctuation: "It is my birthday." This exercise helps to reinforce the concept that capitalisation and punctuation are crucial components of clear and proper sentence structure.

Further engaging activities are provided, including worksheets where students must rewrite sentences with the appropriate capital letters and full stops. Examples given for correction include "you are funny" which should be corrected to "You are funny." and "my dog is in the garden" which should be rewritten as "My dog is in the garden." Additionally, the resources offer exercises where students have to rearrange jumbled words to form coherent sentences and then punctuate them correctly. For example, the words "i", "love", "my", "cat" should be arranged to form the sentence "I love my cat." To complement the learning experience, interactive games are also suggested, prompting students to apply their knowledge in a fun and educational way. These resources not only teach the rules of capitalisation and punctuation but also encourage students to practice and apply these rules to improve their writing skills.

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When should I use capitalization in presentations? [closed]

I am always confused with should I capitalize something or not. Take the talk by Jeremy Avigad for instance, on page 8, he uses "Formal methods" and "Interactive theorem proving", but not capitalization for "verified proof" and "formal search."

My understanding is that we should capitalize the first letter of the items which are sentences. If the item is just a short word, we should not capitalize it. However, my minds fail here. Could anyone give me some help with better rules about when to use capitalization? I always cannot decide on capitalization for presentation. For example, if I write something in a textbox of PowerPoint , should I capitalize the first letter?

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The only real rule is to be consistent throughout the presentation.

Academics are generally pretty bad about following even this, so you will find lots of counter-examples, even from prominent researchers. The presentation you linked actually seems pretty good in this regard:

• Most of the text is written in sentences, with periods at the end and normal sentence capitalization (first word + proper nouns). This is unusual for a presentation, but it's perfectly fine.
• Some of these sentences have line breaks and bullets inserted, but the capitalization is not affected.
• Some of the bulleted lists are lists of fragments (not sentences); these fragments have no periods and the first letter is not capitalized.

But even in this presentation, there are a few minor inconsistencies:

• You mention slide 8. I think this one is arguable; the "squiggly bullets" at the bottom are in a different format than the regular bullets at the top; using different capitalization schemes for these different types of bullets is defensible. Using a different capitalization scheme for the outline or prologue is similarly something I would not second-guess, even if it's not my preference.
• Perhaps the bullets on slide 30 are a clearer example of a mistake. Elsewhere (e.g., page 23) the author does not capitalize the first word of list entries that are not sentences, but here he does.

• 2 Well, another rule, probably, is not to use ALL CAPS. But, yes, the example given seems a bit sloppy. –  Buffy Commented Sep 5, 2021 at 20:23
• 8 Bullet lists are tricky to get right. It's often desirable to: // • keep items short // • minimise punctuation // • make items fragments continuing the sentence introducing them // • But sometimes, a related point fit the same way. // • It may even be a full sentence. // • Should we then continue the list, or what should we do? // • Points that need question marks don't help either. OK, a little contrived, to squeeze into a comment, but hopefully self-explanatory –  Chris H Commented Sep 6, 2021 at 8:56

This is virtually always completely up to you unless you've been given specific rules or a style guide by your institution or the venue. But the trend seems to be toward less capitalization generally. Consider, for example, the style on Wikipedia, where only the first word of a title is capitalized.

• 6 Yes, sentence casing on Wikipedia for titles ( MOS:AT ) and sub section headings ( MOS:HEADINGS ). –  Peter Mortensen Commented Sep 6, 2021 at 13:24

Jeremy Avigad seems to have got it right; his choices might well seem questionable from the perspective that there is something special about presentations, as compared to any other kind of text, but there is not.

Unless there are house rules then broadly in any text, the exceptions to normal rules about capitalisation are titles and lists.

Titles should have the same place in presentations as in books, magazines or newspapers: eg, each page or slide might have a headline.

Lists are different.

If the list is seen as text run-on without abnormal punctuation, made special only by its spacing, it should have normal capitals… broadly, none. Broadly, that applies when the items are separated by line spaces that would otherwise have been commas or semi-colons.

If the list is seen as a collection of separate items, each item should be treated a separate sentence, with normal capitalisation.

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Change the Case of Text in PowerPoint Presentations

Already entered your text? Use these methods to change the case

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PowerPoint supports two different methods for changing the case of text that you've entered into your presentation. Depending on what's easiest for you, change the text case using shortcut keys on your keyboard or change the case using a command in the Font group of the Home tab.

Instructions in this article apply to PowerPoint 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010; PowerPoint for Mac, and PowerPoint for Microsoft 365.

Change Case Using Shortcut Keys

Keyboard shortcuts are useful for just about any program as a fast alternative to using the mouse. PowerPoint supports the Shift+F3 shortcut in Windows (which is the same in Word ) to toggle between the three most common selections for changing text case:

• Uppercase : All of the letters in the selected text are capitalized.
• Lowercase : None of the letters in the selected text are capitalized.
• Capitalize each word : The first letter in each word of the selected text is capitalized.

Highlight the text to switch and press Shift + F3 to cycle between the settings.

Change Case Using the PowerPoint Ribbon

If you don't use keyboard shortcuts or use PowerPoint on a Mac, change the case of text in a presentation from the PowerPoint ribbon .

Select the text.

Go to Home and, in the Font group, select the Change Case ( Aa ) button.

Choose from these five options:

• Sentence case capitalizes the first letter in the selected sentence or bullet point.
• lowercase converts the selected text to lowercase, without exception.
• UPPERCASE converts the selected text to an all-caps setting. Numbers do not shift to punctuation symbols.
• Capitalize Each Word causes the first letter of each word in the selected text to be capitalized. (This isn't true title case, which doesn't capitalize conjunctions, articles, and prepositions of fewer than four letters.)
• tOGGLE cASE changes each letter of the selected text to the opposite of the current case. This is handy if you had inadvertently pressed the Caps Lock key while you were typing.

PowerPoint's case-changing tools are helpful but not foolproof. Using the  sentence case  converter does not preserve the formatting of proper nouns, and  capitalize each word  does exactly what it says, even if some words like  a  and  of  should remain lowercase in composition titles.

Considerations

The use of text case in PowerPoint presentations mixes a bit of art with a bit of science. Most people do not like all-caps text because it reminds them of shouting by email, but the limited and strategic use of all-caps headers can set text apart on a slide. 

In any presentation, the chief virtue is consistency. All the slides should use the same text formatting, typography, and spacing . Varying things too often among the slides confuses the visual presentation and appears both messy and amateurish. Rules of thumb for self-editing your slides include:

• Capitalize or punctuate all bullets or no bullets.
• If you render a slide's header in capitalize each word case, the case and punctuation of your bullets matter less than if you render your slide titles as short, complete sentences. Short-sentence titles usually look better with bullets presented as correctly formatted complete sentences.
• Avoid rendering long blocks of text in uppercase or capitalize each word case.

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Capital Letters - PowerPoint and Worksheets

Subject: English

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Unit of work

Last updated

17 February 2021

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This resource contains a fully editable, 75-slide PowerPoint lesson on and a set of 27 worksheets on capital letters.

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The PowerPoint clearly explains and demonstrates why, when and where capital letters are used. The PowerPoint focuses on using capital letters for:

The start of sentences The pronoun I Proper nouns - places, names, geographical features, book and film titles, days of the week, months of the year, special days, buildings etc Addressing envelopes

Tasks include:

Identifying words that require capital letters Identifying where capital letters should be used in sentences These resources are suitable for Key Stage 1 pupils and older SEN students who will benefit from the visual nature of the resource.

This resource contains a set of 27 worksheets on when capital letters are used. Tasks include using capital letters for:

The start of sentences The pronoun I Names Places Days of the week Months Geographical features and landmarks Buildings Brand names and companies Movie and book titles The start of direct speech Addressing envelopes

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