I took 45-2 Capital letters
1 her Cherokee ancestors
because it is the name of a tribe.
2 I want to take Environmental Biology 103, one other biology course, and one English course.
Names of school subjects should not be capitalized unless they are names of languages,
However, particular course use capitalized.
3 Web site called Vote Smart Web.
Major words in the titles of works, including Web sites, should be capitalized.
4 more difficult to cross the Rio Grande into the United States.
Names of specific geographical places should be capitalized
7 "O Liberty," cried Madame Roland from the scaffold, "what crimes are committed in thy name?"
The word What is not the first word of the quoted sentence, so it should not be capitalized.
8 When the jurors turned in a verdict of not guilty after only one hour of deliberation, district attorney Bax was disappointed.
district attorney is a title preceding the name of a specific person: District Attorney Bax.
9 W. C. Fields's epitaph reads, "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."
The first word of a quoted sentence should be capitalized
10 Please bring the following items to the meeting: ten legal pads, a box of pencils, and your laptop computer.
Because the word group following the colon is not an independent clause, the word ten is not capitalized.
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