Guide to English grammar

Anti-British feeling, the Trans-Siberian Railway

3. 
   A hyphen also comes between two vowels which are the same, e.g. re-enter, co-operate.
   

5 We use a hyphen when a word is divided between one line of print or handwriting and the next.

...It is important to understand that the computer...
There are rules about where to divide a word. Some dictionaries mark the places like this: un-der-stand.
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6 Capital letters
We use a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence, for the pronoun I with the names of people Titles also have a
capital.
And I also went with her.
Jason Donovan, Agatha Christie.
Doctor Owen, Mrs. Whitehouse, Uncle William.

NOTE
Words like doctor and father have a capital when they are a title, or when we use them to address someone.

Talking to someone Mrs. Whitehouse Doctor Owen/Doctor Professor Jones Father/Dad Grandma Uncle William

Talking about someone Mrs. Whitehouse Doctor Owen/the doctor Professor Jones/the professor/the Professor my father/my dad/my Dad my grandma/my Grandma/Grandma my uncle/Uncle William/my Uncle William

4 With the names of places. When a noun is part of a name, it has a capital letter too.

Australia, New York, Oxford, the River Aire, the Humber Bridge, Fifth Avenue, Paddington Station.

5 With some expressions of time such as the names of days, months, special days or important events and historical periods and.
Tuesday, April; New Year's Day, Easter Sunday; the Modern Age, the First World War.

6 With nationality words.

Liza was a French singer.
I'm learning Greek.

7 With the titles of books, newspapers, films and so on.
Animal Farm, The Daily Telegraph.

8 In most abbreviations which are formed from the first letters of each word in a phrase.

the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).

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