Uses of capital and simple letters appropriately.

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                        👀Uses of capital and simple letters appropriately.👀



Learn the rules of using capital letters. It will help you to write English correctly and read easily.

 We use a capital letter to begin a sentence

    Examples :

·      He is tall. /   This is my brother.

         We use capital letters to start proper nouns. (names of people, places)

 Examples :

·      Kamani lives in Veyangoda. / Mahiru goes to Ananda Vidyalaya.

      Pronoun "I" is always capital.

Examples :

·      I like cake. /  Can I help you ?

         We use a capital letter to begin the days of week, months, festivals, names of books, subjects, languages.

 Examples :

·      Monday,/   March / Ramazan / Madol Duwa / Science / Tamil

Activity 1

Read the following sentences and find the words starting with capitals. Write them as given in the example.

(1)  I am Narada.

I Narada

(2)  They will come next Sunday.

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(3)  Yesterday I went to Ariyadasa bookshop.

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(4)  We celebrate Vesak on May.

............................ ……………………. ……………………….

(5)  Did you read Hathpana?

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(6)  Fourth of February is our National Day.

……………………. …………………. …………………….

Activity 2

Circle the mistakes and rewrite them correctly.

(1) my favourite festival is ramazan.

My favourite festival is Ramazan.

(    (2) do you like english films ?

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(    (3) they go to classes on saturdays.

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(    (4) kumudu lives in pahalagama.

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(    (5) virajkoli lives in india.

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(    (6) madolduwa was written by martin wickramasinghe.

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Activity 3

Read the following paragraph. Correct mistakes and rewrite the paragraph using capitals where necessary.

i am dinusha. i live in ganegoda. my school is sujathabalikavidyalaya. myfavouritecolour is black. kumari and seetha are my best friends. we go to classess on saturdays. every december we get together to celebrate christmas.in december we visit our grandparents in homagama.but this year we have to stay home due to covid -19.these days I am reading a story book written bysomweerasenanayake.the title of the book is ganga addara kale. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Activity 4

Use capital letter where necessary.

1. have you ever been to nuwareliya?

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2. my computer is a dell but mine is toshiba.

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3. The tiniest country in the world is vetican city.

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4. i wonder how many steps the eiffel tower has.

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5. my mother made chocholate cake for christmas.

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6. shathuthi and anushka went to park on last Monday.

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Activity 5

Rewrite the paragraph using capital letters where necessary.

i am nirmala. my birthday falls on the 1st of april. so my friends teased me saying i am a fool as i was born on that day. last year on my birthday i gave them a party and i surprised them all by showing them my progress report of the school. i was the first in the class. how can a fool do that?

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Activity 5

Rewrite the paragraph using capital letters where necessary.

have you ever played putting the eye to the elephant. We played it at my birthday party. its easy and fun. first my mother drew a big picture of an elephant up on a wall. next she blindfolded the first player aruna. then she gave aruna a piece of chalk. right after she gave him the chalk she spun him around so that he got a kind of dizzy. then aruna walked up to the picture and drew the eye where he thought it belonged.

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