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Tip #455: Capitalize formal titles of ...

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Tip #455: Capitalize formal titles of acts, laws, bills, and treaties, but do not capitalize common-noun elements that stand alone in place of the full name.

For example:

Capitalize: The Americans With Disabilities Act

Do not capitalize: the act

 

Capitalize: The First Amendment

Do not capitalize: the amendment

 

Capitalize: Public Law 480

Do not capitalize: the law

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This week’s quiz:

Which is correct?

  1. Newton's first law of motion

  2. Newton's First Law of Motion

  3. the first law of thermodynamics

  4. the First Law of Thermodynamics

Quote of the week:

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."

(Richard Wright, 20th century American author)

Answers to this week's exercise:

  1. Newton's first law of motion

  2. the first law of thermodynamics

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, author, Lynne Truss The Everything Resume Book by Steven Graber
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The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, White, E. B. White  How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing, by Robert Gunning, Richard A. Kallan (Contributor) 

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