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Underline the words that should have capital letters in the sentence.

we'd planned to take a holiday in august but my older sister, sophie, is due to start a new job in america working for a company called inspiration, so we will go later.

  • Read the question carefully and read it again. What is it asking you to do?
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It is asking you to find words that should have capital letters.

  • Check if there are any proper nouns, e.g. names of people, places, titles, brands or dates in the sentence that would also need a capital letter. Don't forget the sentence opening.
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Names of people = sophie.
Names of places = america.
Brands = inspiration.
Dates = august.
Sentence opening = we'd.

  • Carefully underline the words.
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we'd planned to take a holiday in august but my older sister, sophie, is due to start a new job in america working for a company called inspiration, so we will go later.

  • Check your answer.