Question

Correct any words with capitalization errors in the following paragraph (there are 11 incorrect words in all):

Answer 1

Answer:

This is the corrected text with proper punctuation:

One of my favorite parts of the trip was seeing the “Statue” of “Liberty”. I learned that it was a gift to the “United” “States” from the “French”. On another day, we met the “mayor”; his name was “Mayor” Bloomberg. Mom and “Dad” thought it was outrageous how expensive everything was. Dad said, “Next “year we’re going to “Las” Vegas”.”

Explanation:

Rules of capitalization that helped find the mistakes in the text:

* Proper nouns should be capitalized, proper nouns include names of countries, cities, nationalities, manmadestructures, proper names: examples in text "Statue of Liberty", "United States", "French", "Bloomberg", "Las Vegas".

* The first letter of a quotation should be capitalized as in "Next" in the text.

* Titles should not be capitalized unless followed by a name. So in the text, the word "mayor" alone should be in lowercase whereas the word mayor as in "Mayor Bloomberg" should be capitalized.

* Relatives´ family names such as Mom and Dad should be capitalized as in "Mom and Dad thought it would be..."

Answer 2

Answer:

One of my favorite parts of the trip was seeing the Statue of Liberty. I learned that it was a gift to the "United States" from the French. On another day, we met the Mayor; his name was Mayor Bloomberg. Mom and dad thought it was outrageous how expensive everything was. Dad said, “next year we’re going to Las Vegas.”

Explanation: