Predica tions: After period After 203. In a complete independent predication1 which follows a terminal period, or begins a composition or a direct quotation, the first word should be capitalized. 204. A complete independent predication 1 following a semicolon semicolon should not be capitalized. After tolon after colon Right: Go to the library; your father wants you. 205. A complete independent predication1 following a colon should not be capitalized if it is the only predication introduced by the colon. : Right The explanation is simply this: the water rises because it is hot. 206. But if the predication following a colon is only the first of a series introduced by the colon, a series the members of which are separated by periods, it should be capitalized. : - Right The explanation is this: First, the water is heated. Next, it rises because it is lighter than the water above. Finally, it descends from the top by a different system of pipes. Appositive 207. When a colon introduces an appositive,3 grammatical or rhetorical, the appositive should of course not be capitalized. Series of questions : Right The ingredients are these: barley, hops, and water. [374.] Right I am sure of this: that his administration was : honest. [374.] Right: It is used in three ways: for food, for medicine, and for clothing. [383.] 4 208. In a series of closely related interrogative predications, the member or members following the first may be written without capitalization. 1 See 243, 244. 2 See footnote 1, p. 86. 3 See the Grammatical Vocabulary, pp. 360 ff. 4 See 236 ff. Right: Must I obey you? must I crouch before you ? thetic 209. An independent predication interpolated in, or Parenattached to, another, and enclosed between parentheses, predicadashes, or commas, should not be capitalized. Right: His profits (he told me this himself) were ten Right: I dressed - you may not believe this, but it's true- 1 tion predication 210. A complete independent predication that is Quoted directly quoted should be capitalized, as was stated in Rule 203. Right: The captain cried, “All hands to the pumps ! ' But note: 211. A quoted word or expression not con- Quoted stituting an independent predication should not be fragments capitalized when incorporated elsewhere than at the beginning in a predication of the quoter. (Cf. Rule 470.) Right: It seemed to be "without form and void." 212. A partially quoted predication from which the Lines of poetry 213. The first word of every line of poetry should be capitalized. Right: So shall I love thee Down in the dark-lest Paragraphed clauses as is 214. When a sentence is divided into paragraphs for the purpose of emphasizing its several parts, done in public resolutions, legal instruments, and technical writing, the first word of every such paragraph should be capitalized. Right : Whereas ; and Capitalization without reason Whereas ; therefore be it 215. Common nouns1 should, in general, not be capitalized except in accordance with one of the preceding rules. Do not capitalize words which there is no reason for capitalizing, such as locomotive, forest, organ, rhetoric, mathematics, history, whooping cough, landlady, bulldog, electricity, citizen, flour mill, profession, gold mine, teachers' convention, freshman, sophomore, junior, senior. 1 See the Grammatical Vocabulary, pp. 360 ff. A ITALICS1 Do tation in MS. 216. Italics should be indicated in manuscript by one Represenstraight line drawn below each word to be italicized. not use wave lines; do not use double or triple lines; do not use print instead of script. under each word to be italicized. Draw one straight line 217. Titles of literary, musical, and artistic works, and Titles of periodicals and newspapers, should be italicized 2 when mentioned in written discourse. Right: Walter Scott's The Talisman, Rider Haggard's 218. It is permissible to enclose titles in quotation Exclusion BAD: We studied Irving's Astoria. BAD: "Scott's Marmion" is a spirited poem. 220. Quote literary, musical, and artistic titles exactly. BAD: Whitman's poem Captain, O My Captain com- Right: Whitman's poem O Captain, My Captain com- [381.] 221. If the title of a single literary, musical, or artistic work begins with the or a, this word should not be omitted in writing the title, and it should be capitalized Accurate citation Titles beginning with the or a: Single works Periodicals Ships Words discussed Foreign words WRONG Do you like Kipling's Man Who Was and Right: Do you like Kipling's The Man Who Was and WRONG I felt depressed after reading the House of Right: I felt depressed after reading The House of WRONG: Poe's story Descent into the Maelstrom is Right: Poe's story A Descent into the Maelstrom is very vivid. [381.] 222. In writing the name of a newspaper or other periodical, however, a the limiting the noun of the title should not be capitalized or italicized, even if it is part of the title; and the name of a city modifying adjectively the noun of the title should not be italicized. Right: She found there some copies of the Pall Mall Gazette, the Evening Telegraph, the Century Magazine, the New York Evening Post, and the Madison (Wisconsin) Democrat. 223. Names of ships should be italicized.1 Right: I cut the Hispaniola from her anchor. 224. When a word is spoken of as a word, not used to represent the thing or idea that it ordinarily represents, and not quoted, - it should be italicized.1 When a word is spoken of as a quoted word, it should usually be inclosed in quotation marks and not italicized. Right: The misuse of grand, awful, and nice is a common fault. Right: In the expression, "we, the people," "6 people " is in apposition with " we." 225. Unnaturalized foreign words introduced into an English context should usually be italicized.1 Right: He is a bona fide purchaser. Right: The president pro tempore endeavored to maintain the status quo. 1 See 216. |