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Correct: Professor Rao spoke first. Correct generic use: The professor spoke first.
8 Capitalization Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
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What to notice in the examples
Accurate capitalization distinguishes true proper names from generic descriptions, follows a consistent title and heading style, and avoids unnecessary capitals that can make ordinary roles or concepts look like formal names.
- Capitalize the first word of a sentence and true proper nouns.
- Distinguish formal titles used with names from generic job descriptions.
- Apply one documented title-case or sentence-case system to headings.
- Check branded terms, geographic names, days, months, languages, and official document names individually.
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Correct: We meet on Monday in September.
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Generic: The marketing department revised the plan. Formal name may differ if the organization officially names the unit.
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Sentence case heading: How the review process works.
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Title case heading under a common style: How the Review Process Works.
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Correct: She studies Japanese and economics.
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Correct: the Pacific Ocean; generic: the ocean.
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Correct sentence start: After the outage, the support team reviewed the logs.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.