Capitalization Rules for Holidays

This video tutorial explains the rules for capitalizing holidays, names, days of the week, and months of the year. It highlights the importance of capitalizing the first letter of each word in a holiday, except for the word 'of' in phrases like '4th of July.' The tutorial includes practice sentences to help viewers identify and correct capitalization mistakes. The video concludes with a call to action to like and subscribe for more content.

What does it mean to capitalize a word?

• To make the first letter uppercase

• To make all letters uppercase

• To italicize the word

• To underline the word

Which of the following should always be capitalized?

• Verbs

• Names of people

• Adjectives

• Common nouns

If Olivia's birthday is on a Friday in May, which words should be capitalized?

• Olivia, friday, may

• Olivia, Friday, May

• olivia, Friday, May

• olivia, friday, may

Which of the following holidays should have its first letter capitalized?

• All of the above

• halloween

• christmas

• easter

Which of the following is a holiday that should be capitalized?

• All of the above

• easter

• thanksgiving

• halloween

Which of the following is a correct capitalization for a holiday?

• christMas

• CHRISTMAS

• Christmas

• christmas

Which of the following is a correct capitalization for a holiday?

• easter

• Easter

• EASTER

• eAster

How should 'Valentine's Day' be capitalized?

• Valentine's Day

• valentine's day

• Valentine's day

• valentine's Day

What is the exception to the rule of capitalizing all words in a holiday?

• Do not capitalize 'the'

• Do not capitalize 'in'

• Do not capitalize 'of'

• Do not capitalize 'and'

Which of the following is a correct capitalization for a holiday?

• new Year's Day

• New Year's Day

• New Year's day

• new year's day