What are Capitals Used For

WALT: Write an explanation telling people what capital letters are and when you use them in writing.

Upper case letters of the alphabet are bigger than lower case letters. Capitals can only reach up to the upper line. They are not always the same shape as the lower case letters e.g Qq, The bigger Q is not the exact same shape as the little q.       

At the start of a sentence, Capitals are needed. You know when to add a capital because uppercase letters are added after full stops, question marks and exclamation mark. E.g “Lovely day isn’t it “ said Joe. Joe’s friend replied “Indeed”.      

Upper case letters also start at the beginning of Geographical places, for example Auckland, New Zealand is a city and a country or Europe a continent. Places like Skycity or a town called Glen Innes also needs to start with capital letters.  

Big letters are also used at the start of a day or month, for example: 15th October, Wednesday. Also they start at the beginning of holidays like Christmas, Easter and Labour day. You need a capital at the start of a date otherwise you won’t know the exact date e.g “ I am arriving at Australia Sydney on december 28th saturday for easter”.

Titles of movies, games, shops, companies, schools, TV, books, brands and airlines also have capitals. If upper case letters weren’t sawn at the start of the word, you would not know if it was a movie, shop, game or a airline. For example air new zealand, if there weren’t any capitals then who will know what airline it is or if point england school did not have any capitals, who will know which school it is.

Now that you know what capitals use them! To make your reader understand what you are writing.