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| Punctuation saves lives. |
A sentence is a clause or group of words that expresses a complete idea of some kind (hopefully coherent). It starts off with a capital letter (BIG LETTERS) and ends with a punctuation mark (SEE ABOVE), usually a period (.). nothavingasentencewithacompleteideaorcapitallettersorpunctuationmakeseveryonethinkthatthereissomethingwrongwithyou
Proper nouns are people, places and things with names. ALL names have capital letters. Not liking someone or something doesn't mean you can get away with not using capital letters.
Example: Christians are proper nouns. Proper nouns are nouns with names. Names have capital or big letters.
Note the correct usage of big letters in that example.
Some common insufferable mistakes:
Its/it's: Its is a possessive adjective. It's is an abbreviated form of it is. When one uses the latter, one might as well be saying: The dog wags it is tail.
It sounds stupid, doesn't it?
There/their/they're: one is a place, one is a possessive adjective (SEE ABOVE) and the other is a short form for they are. No one says: Bob and Nancy invited us over to they are house for a party. Do they?
Whose/who's: Whose is a possessive pronoun. Who's is just who is.
Plurals aren't made by adding an apostrophe ('). Ever.
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