单词大写是指单词的第一个字母大写,其余字母小写。经验丰富的作者会谨慎使用单词大写。如果有任何疑问的话,最好不要随便大写的首字母。影评中【写作技巧】如何写好影评提及电影名称,导演、演员名字时,正确使用大写是十分重要的。
下面是单词大写原则:
规则一:文章和句子的首字母总是大写。
规则二:专有名词大写,专有名词派生的形容词的首字母大写。
例句:
I’m craving Oreos.
You can buy your ticket online for The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I need a pinch of regular salt or Kosher salt.
规则三:特定的地理区域名词需大写,包括城市名,街道名,国家名等。
例句:
Earnest Hemingway lived in Paris in 1920s.
Orange County is the in south of California.
规则四:星期,月份需大写
例句:
I go to yoga classes every Friday morning.
规则五:历史时期及年代需大写。
例句:
the Civil War
the Great Depression
规则六:在一段完整的引用中首字母大写。
例句:
Stephen said, “It’s a shame.”
规则七:当引用文章标题时:
- 标题的第一个,最后一个单词的首字母需大写。
- 标题中所有的形容词,副词,名词的首字母需大写。
- 标题中所有的代词(包括it)的首字母需大写。
- 所有动词,包括be动词的所有形式(is、are、was、has been等)的首字母需大写。
- No、not首字母需大写。
- 冠词(a、an、the)不大写,除非是标题中的第一个或最后一个单词。
- 连词(and, or, nor, but, for, yet, so)首字母不大写,除非是标题中的第一个或最后一个单词。
- to不大写,除非是标题中的第一个或最后一个单词。
- 短介词((of, on, in, by))的首字母不大写。
现在,学会单词首字母的大写的基本规则了吗?一起来练习一下!
练习:依据以上单词大写原则,将下列句子改错:
- At the age of 20, Matt went to work at EF English first in boston.
- After 25 years in shanghai, Alex packed his suitcase and moved to London where he found a beautiful apartment on oxford street.
- The first Pirates Of The Caribbean came out in 2003.
- I’ve been reading lord of the flies by William Golding these days.
- The story of the great Gatsby is set in the roaring twenties.
答案:
- At the age of 20, Matt went to work at EF English First in Boston.
- After 25 years in Shanghai, Alex packed his suitcase and moved to London where he found a beautiful apartment on Oxford Street.
- The first Pirates of the Caribbean came out in 2003.
- I’ve been reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding these days.
- The story of The Great Gatsby is set in the Roaring Twenties.