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Capitalize the words Present Simple tense?

How do I capitalize the below sentence. I think I capitalize Present Simple but do I write First Person?
"The speaker's use of the first person Present Simple tense pulls the reader into the scene."
  

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[nq:1]How do I capitalize the below sentence. I think I capitalize Present Simple but do I write First Person? " "He named his second child Jim after the horse that had brought him to Washington.

  • [nq:1]How do I capitalize the below sentence.
  • I think I capitalize Present Simple but do I write First Person?
  • " "He named his second child Jim after the horse that had brought him to Washington.
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[nq:1]How do I capitalize the below sentence. I think I capitalize Present Simple but do I write First Person? "The speaker's use of the first person Present Simple tense pulls the reader into the scene."[/nq]
"The speaker's use of the first person present tense pulls the reader into the scene." If you have to include 'simple', then: "The speaker's use of the first person simple present tense
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[nq:1]How do I capitalize the below sentence. I think I capitalize Present Simple but do I write First Person?[/nq]
Neither is capitalized.

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[nq:2]How do I capitalize the below sentence. I think I capitalize Present Simple but do I write First Person?[/nq]
[nq:1]Neither is capitalized.[/nq]
If one uses a German noun in English, should it be capitalized?

"He named his second child Jim after the horse that had brought him to Washington. He caught his son one day writing 'James' on his lessons, and he told the boy without
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[nq:2]Neither is capitalized.[/nq]
[nq:1]If one uses a German noun in English, should it be capitalized?[/nq]
Nomally not, I would say, e.g. kindergarten, rucksack, abseiling. Sometimes German nouns used for abstractions in quasi-philosophical discourse, e.g. Weltanschauung, Zeitgeist etc., are capitalised, although I've seen them also being used uncapitalised.

Regards, Einde O'Ca
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Einde O'Callaghan wrote on 27 Jun 2004:
[nq:2]If one uses a German noun in English, should it be capitalized?[/nq]
[nq:1]Nomally not, I would say, e.g. kindergarten, rucksack, abseiling. Sometimes German nouns used for abstractions in quasi-philosophical discourse, e.g. Weltanschauung, Zeitgeist[/nq]
These words appear in English dictionaries, so I guess they're English words and norma
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[nq:1]Einde O'Callaghan wrote on 27 Jun 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]Nomally not, I would say, e.g. kindergarten, rucksack, abseiling. Sometimes German nouns used for abstractions in quasi-philosophical discourse, e.g. Weltanschauung, Zeitgeist[/nq]
[nq:1]These words appear in English dictionaries, so I guess they're English words and normally not German when they appear in English sentences unless, o
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Einde O'Callaghan wrote on 27 Jun 2004:
[nq:2]Einde O'Callaghan wrote on 27 Jun 2004: These words ... unless, of course, those sentences are about German words.[/nq]
[nq:1]As I said, I've sometimes seen them used in quasi-philosophical texts in capitalised form. In these texts normal English words ... was doing no more than reporting what I've seen in such texts - and I did quite expressly
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[nq:1]Einde O'Callaghan wrote on 27 Jun 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]As I said, I've sometimes seen them used in quasi-philosophical ... such texts - and I did quite expressly say "sometimes".[/nq]
[nq:1]I've seen the same thing. Well, as one of the aue denizens just put it about an English expression, "Some people use it, so it must be correct somewhere".[/nq]
LOL
Regards, Einde O'Callaqghan
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Einde O'Callaghan wrote on 28 Jun 2004:
[nq:2]Einde O'Callaghan wrote on 27 Jun 2004: I've seen the ... "Some people use it, so it must be correct somewhere".[/nq]
[nq:1]LOL[/nq]
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[nq:2]LOL[/nq]
[nq:1]Doncha just luv Strong Descriptivism?[/nq]
You wanna watch wot you was saying about Capital Letter's. I would of taken more care before posting if me was you.
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