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| Capitalizing sentences | Capitalize the first word of sentences. |
| Capitalizing names and titles. | Capitalize personal titles and names of people. |
| Capitalizing names of clubs, schools, organizations and companies. | Capitalize names of clubs, schools, organizations and companies. |
| Capitalizing days of week. | Capitalize the days of the week. |
| Capitalizing names of months. | Capitalizing the months of the year. |
| Capitalizing the names of holidays. | Capitalize the names of holidays. |
| Capitalizing the names of historic periods and events and special events. | Capitalize the names of historic periods and events and special events. |
| Capitalizing the names of cities, states and important places. | Capitalize the names of cities, states and other important places. |
| Capitalizing geographic names. | Capitalize georgraphic names, regions and locations. |
| Capitalizing names of streets, avenues and buildings. | Capitalize the names of streets, roads, avenues and buildings. |
| Capitalizing offical titles. | Capitalize an official title when it precedes a name and elsewhere if it is a title of high distinction. |
| Capitalizing initials and abbreviations. | Capitalize initials; also capitalize letters in abbreviations if the letters would be capitalized when the words are spelled out. |
| Typing numbers at beginning of sentences. | Spell a number that begins a sentence even when other numbers in the sentence are shown in figures. |
| Typing numbers within sentences. | Use figures for numbers above ten, and for numbers one to ten when they are used with numbers above ten. |
| Typing dates and times. | Use figures to express dates and times. |
| Typing house numbers. | Use figures for house numbers except house number One. |
| Typing numbers used as measures and weights. | Use figures to express measures and weights. |
| Typing numbers that follow nouns. | Use figures for numbers following nouns. |
| Capitalizing nouns preceding numbers. | Capitalize nouns preceding numbers (except page and line). |
| Typing numbers of small-numbered streets. | Spell (capitalized) names of small-numbered streets and avenues (ten and under). |
| Typing fractions. | Use figures for a series of fractions, but spell isolated fractions and indefinite numbers. |
| Typing direct quotations. | Capitalize the first word of a direct quotation unless the quote is built into the structure of the sentence. |
| Typing interrupted quotations. | Capitalize the first word of the first part of an interrupted quotation, but not the first word of the second part. |
| Hyphenating a word. | Divide a word only between syllables; words of one syllable, therefore, should not be divided. |
| Hyphenating a one-letter syllable. | Do not separate a one-letter syllable at the beginning of a word or a one- or two-letter syllable at the end of a word. |
| Hyphenating words with double consonants. | Divide a word between double consonants except when adding a syllable to a word that ends in double letters. |
| Hypenating a word after a single-letter vowel syllable. | Divde a word after a single-letter vowel syllable that is not a part of a word ending. |
| Hyphenating a word ending in -able, -ible, -acle, -ical, and ily. | Divide a word before the word endings: -able, -ible, -acle, -ical, and -ily when the vowel A or I is a separate syllable. |
| Hyphenating contractions. | Do not divide a word that contains a contraction (a word in which one or more omitted letters have been replaced by an apostrophe). |
| Hyphenating compound words. | When two words are hyphenated to make up a compound word, divide only after the designated hyphen. |
| Hyphenating words with two single-letter syllables. | When two single-letter syllables occur together in a word, divide between them. |
| Hyphenating proper nouns. | Avoid dividing proper names, dates, and figures. |
| Capitalize using colons: | Capitalize the first word after a colon if that words begins a complete sentence. |
| Capitalizing books titles, etc. | First, last and all other words in titles of books, articles, periodicals, headings, and plays, except words of four or fewer letters used as articles, conjunctions or prepositions. |
| Capitalize page numbers, line numbers, etc. | A noun preceding a figure should be capitalized except for common nouns such as LINE, PAGE, and SENTENCE, which may be keyed with or without a capital. |
| Capitalizing seasons of the year. | Capitalize seasons of the year only when they are personified. (the soft kiss of Spring) |
| When two numbers occur together in the same sentence. | Use words for the shorter of the two numbers used together. |
| Use figures for percent when: | Definite numbers used with the percent sign (%); but use percent (spelled) with approximations in formal writing. |
| Use figures for sums of money when: | Use figures for sums of money except when spelled for extra emphasis. Even sums may be keyed without the decimal. |
