First grade test questions on sentence capitalization

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🔑 Every sentence *must* begin with a capital letter.
• ✍️ Capital letters are the bigger versions of lowercase letters (A, B, C instead of a, b, c).
• 🛑 Sentences end with a punctuation mark: a period (.), a question mark (?), or an exclamation point (!).
• 📍 Names of people and places also start with capital letters.
• 📅 Days of the week and months of the year begin with capital letters.

✏️ Practice Quiz

1. Which sentence is capitalized correctly?
   1. a cat sat on the mat.
   2. the Cat sat on the mat.
   3. The cat sat on the mat.
   4. the cat Sat on the mat.
2. Which sentence needs a capital letter at the beginning?
   1. My dog is brown.
   2. is my dog brown?
   3. The sky is blue.
   4. we like to read.
3. Choose the correctly capitalized sentence.
   1. i like ice cream.
   2. I like ice cream.
   3. i Like ice cream.
   4. I Like Ice cream.
4. Which sentence is NOT correctly capitalized?
   1. She is my friend.
   2. He likes to play.
   3. they are going home.
   4. We went to the park.
5. Which of these sentences shows correct capitalization?
   1. my birthday is in july.
   2. My birthday is in july.
   3. My birthday is in July.
   4. my Birthday is in July.
6. Which sentence is correctly capitalized and punctuated?
   1. what a great day
   2. What a great day!
   3. what a great day!
   4. What a great day
7. Which sentence uses capitalization correctly for a person's name?
   1. my friend, sarah, likes to sing.
   2. My friend, sarah, likes to sing.
   3. My friend, Sarah, likes to sing.
   4. my friend, Sarah, likes to sing.