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PROPER CAPITALIZATION IN ENGLISH 2

Grammar review This exercise focuses on one tricky pattern: a word like city, president, south, or lake is only capitalized when it's actually part of a specific proper name, not when it's used generically.

New York City (part of the name) vs. the city of Kalamazoo (generic)
President Obama (title + name) vs. talking to the president (generic)
from the South (a specific region) vs. go south for three blocks (a direction)

For the broader rules, see Capitalization 1.



Choose the sentence that has the correct capitalization.

1. Which is correct?
2. Which is correct?
3. Which is correct?
4. Which is correct?
5. Which is correct?
6. Which is correct?
7. Which is correct?
8. Which is correct?
9. Which is correct?
10. Which is correct?
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