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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

When to capitalize

When writing a letter, or e-mail. Should you capitalize the first word in the sentence?
Dear John, it's a nice day. Or, Dear John, It's a nice day. Which is considered correct? Thanks, -John
  

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Hi John; The old grammatical rule of capitalizing the first letter of the first word in a sentence has not changed. However, email is so casually and informally used these days, that writers get very lazy and do not bother to use the shift key. I've seen lots of emails with "i" instead of "I" and even proper names written in lower case.

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  • Hi John; The old grammatical rule of capitalizing the first letter of the first word in a sentence has not changed.
  • However, email is so casually and informally used these days, that writers get very lazy and do not bother to use the shift key.
  • I've seen lots of emails with "i" instead of "I" and even proper names written in lower case.
  • There are also shortcut spellings (ur = your) and improper punctuation.
  • If such an email was sent to a business as a formal letter, it would give the impression that the writer is a sloppy disrespectful person who pays little attention to detail.
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Hi John;

The old grammatical rule of capitalizing the first letter of the first word in a sentence has not changed.

However, email is so casually and informally used these days, that writers get very lazy and do not bother to use the shift key. I've seen lots of emails with "i" instead of "I" and even proper names written in lower case. There are also shortcut spellings (ur = y
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