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Grammar clinic

Go easy on capital letters – you rarely need as many as you think. There’s a tendency in organisations to use capitalisation to convey importance – so everything from concepts to the names of sub-committees get capital letters.

It looks awful, and is difficult on the eye, so wherever possible, don’t use them.

Exceptions of course, are:

• At the start of a sentence.
• Within direct speech. He said: “Capital letters are needed in direct speech.” (more on direct speech later)
• Proper nouns. People’s names, place names, names of books and films, etc have capital letters.

And frankly, that’s quite enough without adding any more.

Also, go steady on the use of CAPITALS TO GRAB ATTENTION. They just hurt to read – and may make readers put your writing down, or in the bin.