• The first letter of the first word you write in a piece of writing

• after every full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.

Now have a go at these sentences. Put the capital letters into the sentences below. The number of capital letters you should find is marked in the brackets. Don’t forget what you have learnt already about names.

1. i like reading novels. my favourite is great expectations. (4)

2. julie lives with her mother in broad street. (3)

3. last winter we went skiing in austria. (2)

4. she is studying business studies and computer science. (5)

5. i don’t know what to do. my mother is ill in hong kong. (4)

6. i can speak urdu, english and french. (4)

7. he came to england in 1986. he was born in china. (4)

8. we don’t eat in the daytime during ramadan. (2)

The answers are on the next page