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Cuando escribimos en inglés, es de vital importancia saber cómo y cuándo utilizar mayúscula.
Estos son los casos más comunes, donde el uso de mayúscula es primordial:
∙ Nacionalidades
∙ Idiomas
∙ Días de la semana
∙ Meses del año
En el caso del español todos estos tipos de palabras se escriben en MINÚSCULA incluidos
los días y los meses del año.
•What can I say?
Pronombre “I”
•G.M.T. or GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
•N.A.T.O. or NATO or Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Abreviaturas
Organization)
•Monday, Tuesday
•January, February Días de la semana, meses,
•Christmas celebraciones
•Armistice Day
•China, France
•Japanese, English Países, idiomas, religiones
•Christianity, Buddhism
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WHAT IS THE SAXON GENITIVE?
Mary and Alice’s dog is sick. (El perro de Mary y Alice está enfermo)
Si el sustantivo poseído es una casa o una tienda, se tiende a omitirlo, sobre todo
en el lenguaje hablado. Los nativos lo hacen continuamente, ya que es ese caso
se entiende a qué se hace referencia.
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ORDINAL NUMBERS
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When do we use ordinal numbers?
Ordinal numbers are normally used for:
Dates
Her birthday is on the 29th. (Twenty-ninth)
Their Independence Day is on the 4th of July. (Fourth of July)
Sequence or Order
Woodward United finished second in the league last year.
I came third in the race.
This is the first time it has happened.
Floors of a building
Our office is on the ninth floor.
She lives on the second floor.
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When do we use ordinal numbers?
Birthday Celebrations
A person’s 15th birthday is an important celebration in Mexico.
He had a huge party for his twenty-first birthday.
Centuries
Shakespeare was born in the 16th century.
The Renaissance was a period in European history from the 14th to the
17th century.
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