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Desafinado Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Is this correct

When writing a title for an essay or an article, when the title has prepositions, do they need to be the lower case?

e.g.) What is Your Lucky Number?
  

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There are no prepositions in that sentence. "Small" words and function words, including prepositions, are often uncapitalised, but the exactly how this is done is a style choice. Different authors/editors may use different methods.

— GPY

  • There are no prepositions in that sentence.
  • "Small" words and function words, including prepositions, are often uncapitalised, but the exactly how this is done is a style choice.
  • Different authors/editors may use different methods.
  • Some publications use ordinary sentence case (only the first word and any proper nouns capitalised) for titles and headings.
  • My feeling is that this style may be getting more common, but I don't have any actual statistics.
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There are no prepositions in that sentence. "Small" words and function words, including prepositions, are often uncapitalised, but the exactly how this is done is a style choice. Different authors/editors may use different methods. Some publications use ordinary sentence case (only the first word and any proper nouns capitalised) for titles and headings. My feeling is that this style may be gettin
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Thank you, GPY. Now I understand whether using "small" words depends on situations.
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