Question

Please help!!

Review the sentence.
Mr. Palmer, a museum curator, got to see the original declaration of independence. Which additional word or words in the sentence should be capitalized?


museum, curator, declaration, independence


declaration, of, independence


declaration, independence


museum, curator, declaration, of, independence

Answer 1

C) declaration, independence

Nouns can be common, or they can be proper. The rule with capitalization (for words not in the title of an article or book, that is) is that the first word of a sentence and proper nouns should be capitalized. Common nouns are nouns that are general words for people, places, or things. A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing. That said, looking back at the sentence, the only proper nouns not already capitalized are “declaration” and “independence” as the Declaration of Independence is the name of the specific document within which the United States declared its independence from England.

Answer 2

The correct answer is C) "declaration, independence"

The words that should be capitalized are "declaration" and "independance" since it is an example of a specific event. Events and periods are capitalized. In this case, the phrase would read "Declaration of Independance".

Prepositions and conjuctions are not capitalized so option B and D are incorrect.

Common nouns as "museum" and "curator" are not capitalized as they refer to general words.