1. Study

Be able, in class, to give a reason for the use of each of the capital letters in these sentences:

1. We saw Dr. Brown drive past.

2. Have you seen the Alps?

3. My mother is going East next Tuesday.

4. The address on that letter should be Mr. Eugene H. Holmes, 225 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y.

5. The baby's birthday was on Saturday, May twelfth.

6. My brother and I read the Youth's Companion.

7. "Such men as thou art England's boast, O miller of the Dee!"

8. We saw President Wilson.

9. Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

10. Beneath the banner stood King Harold.

11. Under this tree General Washington took command of the army.

2. Exercises

a. Write five or more rules telling where capital letters should be used.

b. Copy these sentences, and use capital letters where needed:

1. take my bark, o hiawatha!

2. my cousin martha lives on Washington street, Chicago.

3. have you read rdbinson crusoe?

4. my address will be oxford, ohio.

5. whose birthday is on thursday, July tenth?

6. mr. and mrs. small are coming with captain merritt.

7. the rocky mountains are west of the mississippi river.

8. the child cried take me with you !

9. our friends live in the south.