Formatting titles

Key Notes:

🌟 Formatting Titles ✍️📖

✅ Capitalisation Rules 🅰️🔠

• Always capitalise the first word of a title 🥇
• Always capitalise the last word of a title 🏁
• Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs → Capitalise them ✨
• Articles (a, an, the), conjunctions (and, but, or), short prepositions (in, of, on, at, by) → usually lowercase 📝 (unless they are the first or last word)

✅ Titles of Books 📚

Underline (in handwriting) or Italicise (in typing/printing)

• Example: Charlotte’s Web 🕷️

✅ Titles of Poems ✒️🌸

Put quotation marks around them “ ”

• Example: “The Road Not Taken” 🚶‍♂️🌲

✅ Titles of Articles & Short Stories 📰📖

Use quotation marks “ ”

• Example: “The Gift of the Magi” 🎁

✅ Titles of Movies & TV Shows 🎬📺

Italicise or underline

• Example: The Lion King 🦁👑

✅ Titles of Songs 🎵🎶

Use quotation marks

• Example: “Let It Go” ❄️🎤

✅ Titles of Magazines & Newspapers 📰

Italicise or underline

• Example: The Times of India 🇮🇳

🌟 Quick Tips 🎯

• ✨ First & last words → Always capitalised
• ✨ Important words → Capitalised
• ✨ Small connecting words → Usually lowercase
• ✨ Use Italics/Underline for BIG works (books, movies, newspapers)
• ✨ Use “Quotation Marks” for SHORT works (poems, articles, songs)

let’s practice!