In each of the following sentences, correct any word that requires a capitalization.
1. The lawyer’s office is located on North Pleasant Street.
2. My uncle lives farther West than grandmother.
3. I’d like to move to the South by next summer.
4. The well-known anthropologist Margaret Mead was for many years director of the museum of natural history in New York City.
5. The constitution of the United States was signed in constitution hall on September 17, 1787.
6. Sculptor John Wilson was commissioned to create a Bust of Rev. Martin Luther King jr.
7. The project will be funded partly with money from the National Endowment for the Arts.
8. I read the magazine article in Sports Illustrated while I was waiting in the dentist office yesterday.
9. The tour took the retired teachers above the Article Circle.
10. Many Gerber baby foods no longer have sugar and salt.
There are capitalization errors in 2, 4, 5, 6.
I'm not sure about whether Baby Foods should be capitalized.
My uncle lives farther west than my grandmother.
The well-known anthropologist Margaret Mead was for many years director of the museum of natural history in New York city.
The constitution of the United States was signed in Constitution Hall on September 17, 1787.
Sculptor John Wilson was commissioned to create a bust of rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
This one is right.
My uncle lives farther west than my grandmother.
The others are wrong.
The well-known anthropologist Margaret Mead was for many years the Director of the museum of natural history in New York city.
Why didn't you capitalize Museum of Natural History?
Museum of Natural History is the name of the museum, therefore capitalized as a proper noun.
If you say your uncle lives farther west than Grandmother, Grandmother is the name you call her, therefore is a proper noun. If you say "my grandmother", it is not a proper noun.
Rev. as a title is capitalized as part of the proper name, as in Rev. King.
New York City is the name of the city, so is a proper noun in three words.