Capital letters, full stops and question marks

Start a sentence with a capital letter and end it with a full stop or a question mark. Use capitals for I, names, places, days and languages, and never join two sentences with a comma.

10 min

Module 17 · Lesson 1 of 5

In this lesson

  1. Start a sentence with a capital letter and end it with a full stop or a question mark.
  2. Use capital letters for I, names, places, days, months and languages, but not for seasons or ordinary words.
  3. Write two ideas as two sentences, not joined with a comma.

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