Grammar+Tips

Below are capitalization rules:


 * **Capitalize** || **Do Not Capitalize** ||
 * * First letter of people’s names & places
 * First letter of cities, states, & countries
 * First letter in the first word of a sentence
 * Languages
 * Historical events (e.g. Age of Exploration)
 * Months & days of the week
 * Book titles
 * Pronoun “I” || * Seasons
 * Animals
 * Important words
 * School subjects
 * Body parts
 * Objects ||

Below are common homophones and what they mean:

__ to, two, too __ to - a preposition indicating direction or a position two - a noun meaning the number 2 too - an adverb that means as well or also

__ there, their, they're __ there - an adverb that indicates location or place their - a possessive pronoun; it shows that something belongs to a group of people they're - a contraction that means "they are"

__ your, you're __ your - a possessive pronoun that shows that something belongs to you you're - a contraction that means "you are"

__ its, it's __ its - a possessive pronoun that shows that an item belongs to something it's - a contraction that means "it is"

__ here, hear __ here - an adverb that indicates location or place hear - a verb that means that you can perceive sound (listen)

__ where, wear __ where - an adverb that indicates direction wear - a verb that means when you put something on your body

__affect, effect__ affect - a verb which means to have an influence on something effect - a noun which means to bring about or cause

Below are the notes about avoiding fragments in your writing:

A //**sentence fragment**// does not express a complete thought and does not make a complete sentence.



When you are trying to figure out whether a sentence is complete, ask yourself 2 questions:

· WHO or WHAT is doing the action? (That is the subject.)

· WHAT is happening? (This is the predicate/verb.)

If you can answer BOTH of these questions, your sentence is complete and NOT a fragment!

If you CAN'T answer both of these questions, then your answer IS a fragment and you need to fix it by adding the missing part (the subject or the predicate).

Another common way that fragments are made is when you start a sentence using these words, but you don't finish the sentence:


 * because
 * after
 * since
 * that
 * until
 * before
 * even
 * though
 * if
 * while
 * even though
 * when
 * whether
 * while
 * which
 * unless

If you would like to begin your sentence with these words, you must follow it with a COMMA and write a complete sentence AFTER it.