Question

Which sentence is capitalized correctly?

A) I received a gift from Aunt Sally, but not from my other Aunt.
B) I received a gift from aunt Sally, but not from my other Aunt.
C) I received a gift from Aunt Sally, but not from my other aunt.
D) I received a gift from Aunt sally, but not from my other Aunt.

Answer 1

The above asked question basically gave 4 options to choose from.

Generally capitalization takes place for proper nouns and at the beginning of a new sentence. Ideally the option which i would have chosen would be the one in which there would not be capitalization of "aunt". However, over here the correct answer is either b or c.

I think the correct option is C.

A) I received a gift from Aunt Sally, but not from my other Aunt.

B) I received a gift from aunt Sally, but not from my other Aunt.

C) I received a gift from Aunt Sally, but not from my other aunt.

D) I received a gift from Aunt sally, but not from my other Aunt.

Thanks for asking. i hope i helped.

Answer 2

Punctuation are used to organize a sentence . Moreover, it is used to create clarity and sense or to stress in a sentence. For example quotation marks " ", full stop (.), commas and so on.

Capitalization is a punctuation which refers to the use of an upper case or capital letter of the first letter in a word. There are certain rules that have to be followed to capitalize a letter:

The first word of the sentence and the letter after a period is capitalized.

Proper nouns are capitalized – example: brand names, days of the week and month, country, people place and so forth.

Titles are capitalized.- The president, The chairman.

Therefore, sentence which is capitalized correctly is

C) I received a gift from Aunt Sally, but not from my other aunt.

As proper noun 'Aunt Sally' and the first letter of the sentence 'I' are capitalized appropriately. Compared with this sentence the other sentences are wrong because it capitalizes the common noun 'aunt.'