When NOT to Capitalize
by MaestriPutting in capital letters where they don’t belong is as bad as leaving them out where they do belong. Watch for these capitalization traps.
•Avoid unnecessarily capitalizing compass directions; however, direction words that refer to a specific area of the country should be capitalized.
Examples:
We headed west after the Depression.
The future of the country was cultivated in the West.
•Avoid unnecessarily capitalizing the words referring to family members. Capitalize them only when they are used as names. If a possessive pronoun (my, our, your, his, her, their) comes before the word referring to a family member, the family word is not capitalized.
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