Quick grammar question...

shifty_uk · 2 Apr 2008 at 20:56

I've been writing a personal statement for uni. Just checking over it at the moment and I've noticed I often have words with capital letters - then a paragraph down I have the same word, but without a capital letter? That make sense?

For example:

The job was called Interactive

Then I'll write:

covering areas of interactive

Is this correct, or would I maintain capital letters throughout?

_dogma_ · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:03

Well if it's a proper noun e.g. Glasgow, John, Homebase then it should always have a capital letter. If not it shouldn't need a capital letter unless it's after a full stop obviously.

Zuma · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:04

neither of those sentence fragments make any sense.

maybe if you could post a longer section of what you wrote it would help.

shifty_uk · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:09

Didn't really want to post up the whole statement.

As I was giving the name of the course I studied, I wrote:

studied Multimedia Design and Development at

Later, as I was describing a job role I wrote:

My time there was spent heavily involved in front-end development

Would that be correct, or would I have a capital infront of Development?

Hussman · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:15

No need for a capital D in the second sentence.

Zuma · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:15

that makes more sense now.

in the first case, 'Development' is part of the course title 'Multimedia Design and Development' and so it's appropriate to capitalise it.
in the second instance is is just an ordinary noun and so it shouldn't be capitalised.

_dogma_ · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:17

I don't think you would need it in the second instance but I;m not quite sure what front end development actually is. I would capital the course name and things though.

shifty_uk · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:17

Thank you.

Jon Frost · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:25

Who said uni grads were slow eh?

I mean.

_ wHo saId uNI sTudantS were SLoW eH?",!,..