Formatting and capitalising titles: review

Key Notes:

✨ Formatting and Capitalising Titles ✨

Always Capitalise Important Words 🔠

Capitalise the first word ✔️

Capitalise the last word ✔️

Capitalise all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs

• 👉 Example: The Secret Garden 🌸

Do NOT Capitalise Small Words ❌

Articles: a, an, the

Conjunctions: and, but, or, for, nor, yet, so

Prepositions (short ones): in, on, at, by, of, to, with

• 👉 Example: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Titles of Books 📖, Movies 🎬, and Songs 🎵

• Books: Charlotte’s Web 🐷
• Movies: The Lion King 🦁
• Songs: Shake It Off 🎶

Formatting Rules 📝

• Books, Movies, Plays → Italics or underline
  👉 The Jungle Book OR The Jungle Book 🌴
• Short Stories, Poems, Articles → Use quotation marks
  👉 “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost 🚶‍♂️🍂

5️⃣ Quick Tips 🌟

• ✅ First & last word → Always capitalised
• ✅ Important words → Capitalised
• ✅ Small words → Lowercase (unless at start or end)
• ✅ Use italics/underline for big works 📕
• ✅ Use “quotation marks” for short works ✍️

🎯 Example Practice:

• Correct: The Lord of the Rings 🧙‍♂️
• Incorrect: the Lord Of The Rings ❌

👉 Remember: Capitalising titles makes your writing look neat, formal, and professional! ✍️✨

let’s practice!