In novels, why are the first few words in each chapter spelled in capital letters?
157050
not all novels capitalize the first few words in a chapter.  it is just a writing strategy that would catch the attention of the reader that a new part is beginning.  as a rule, though, capitalize all the letters in the first sentence IF THAT SENTENCE OCCUPIES ONLY THE FIRST LINE.  so technically, as a writing strategy and style, if you want to capitalize the first few words, capitalize the first line only.
77653
The Truth Behind the Pen Name is correct if that is the title of an essay or story.\n\nIf you are using it as a sentence and not as a title, then the proper capitalization is \n\nThe truth behind the pen name.\n\nHope this helps.
367613
I agree. Too bad "much less spell, even with spell checking," isn't a complete sentence. The run-on sentence after that should be separated with a semi-colon. "English" should always be capitalized. There are a few other errors on your post as well. \n\nPerhaps, instead of teachers, the fault lays on adults who can not lead by example and type a correct sentence.
151997
Well, we Americans are often criticized for being lazy. To make a capital letter, you need to press the "shift" key. Since most people like to get things done the quickest, easiest way, they don't want to spend that extra millisecond (sp?) pressing that key. Hey, we're living in fast paced society! Just a guess. P.S. It drives me nuts when people do stuff like that too!
197823
Novels of any type are generally between 45,000 - 70,000 words. There are plenty of exceptions, but that is the starting range.
900623
Yes, it's capitalized, because it's a proper noun.\n\nThe other isn't one word it's two words, thanks giving.
819838
I think it's where you use the letters of a word to spell out another word.  In Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter told the police the killer's name was "Louis Friend", which turned out to be an anagram of "Iron Sulfide" aka "Fool's Gold".  In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Voldemort's real name was Tom Marvolo Riddle" which, when rearranged, spells "I Am Lord Voldemort".\nHope this helps...\n\nBasically, it's rearranging the letters to form new words...
584541
Before the middle ages there was only one set of letters for each language.  In the middle ages the Roman alphabet had developed the set of letters that we now know as small letters.  They are properly called miniscule.  As Irish monks sought to decorate the initial pages of manuscripts, they started making the first letter of a manuscript fancy.  These decorated letters became more and more ornate over time.  But the earliest examples used large versions of the miniscule letters.  Eventually, the old Roman alphabet was adopted as a way to make these decorative letters distinctive.  This alphabet was what we would today call All Caps, but the proper term is majiscule.  Since the primary example of this alphabet is on the Capitoline hill in Rome, the large Roman letters came to be called capitals.  Eventually the use of the capital letters spread beyond the first letter of the manuscript to the first letter of a sentence, and, in German, the initial letter of all nouns.
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Its arrange in the way that, most commonly used letters are clustered in the centre so that we could type fast and efficiently.. though scientist have proved that this is not as fast as it could have been. \n\nU can find more info onarrangements of letter in this site..
801662
According to "The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (Wilson, 1988): \n\n"~I~ pron. 1137 i; later I; developed from the unstressed form of Old English (about 725) ic singular pronoun of the first person (nominative case). Modern and Middle English I developed from earlier i in the stressed position. I came to be written with a capital letter thereby making it a distinct word and avoiding misreading handwritten manuscripts. In the northern and midland dialects of England the capitalized form I appeared about 1250."\nhttp://www.alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhyisi.html\n\nThe one-letter form "O" is treated the same way (unlike "oh"), probably for the same reason.
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:}\nBecause they are translations, which means they change the words of the original language into the language they are translation to
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Each chapter can start with one (1).\n\nIf you are using MS Word, you can pull down the Fornat menu\nFormat/Font... look under the effects section for boxes labeled Superscript or Subscript,  After selecting the charater to manipulated, then check the appropriate effects box and hit apply or done.
231597
Wow, bing, you're brilliant.  It's a book.  Hence the capitalization.  Contrary to popular opinion, there's a reason we have spelling and punctuation.\n\nHere's a link to the first summary I found:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Flat
79519
Instant Messengers are a threat to literacy and correct grammar because people hardly ever type correctly. And if they do, they still don't use proper capitalization or punctuation. They abbreviate short words like 'you' and 'are'. If this continues, the world will be uncivilized. Important documents like the Constitution may be illegible.
868535
No, the word autumn should be lowercase. \n\n   -a girl named Autumn
269708
it depends on how u write it\nbut if just using the keyboards then i will give it u\n\nE,F,H,I,L,T,X\n\nthey were the capital one's\nthe small letter one's are\n\nf,i,l,t,x\n\nis that ok
280432
I'd like it much better if it had capitalization.  I think it's by someone in need of attention and love.