Worked examples
Two examples
Example 1
We moved here in the ______.Choices: Spring / spring / SPRING
- Is spring the name of one particular thing? No; it is a season that comes every year.
- Seasons take a small letter.
Answer: We moved here in the spring.
Example 2
My ______ works at the hospital.Choices: Mom / mom / MOM
- Try the test: is there a word like my, the or a in front? Yes, my.
- With my in front, mom is an ordinary word, not used as her name.
Answer: My mom works at the hospital.
Where this is taught: Punctuation: Start Here, Part 4: Capital letters
More practice: Quiz 46, Capitalization · In your Kaplan book: Unit 1, Chapter 9, Lesson 2, “Capitalization”
The drill
Ten questions
How many:
In each sentence, open the drop-down and choose the words that make the sentence correct, the way the GED test asks. A few questions ask you to tap a whole sentence instead. Then press Check my answers at the bottom.In each sentence, circle the choice in the brackets that makes the sentence correct; where whole sentences are given, circle one. The answer key, with the reasoning, is on the last page.