Capitalization

[Allen165]

Are possessives capitalized in titles/headings? For example, "We Offer Our Services Throughout France."

Thanks!

 

[Abstract Idea]

----- Not an English teacher -----

Are possessives capitalized in titles/headings? For example, "We Offer Our Services Throughout France."

Thanks!

This is a matter of style. You have to choose one and be consistent. Or check the style guide you are currently using.

Possible styles are:

i) Capitalize the first letter of every word from the title, as:
"We Offer Our Services Throughout France."

ii) Capitalize the first letter of prepositions over three letters long and every noun, verb, pronoun, adjective and subordinate conjunction.
"We Offer Our Services Throughout France."

And there are many other possibilities of title styles.

 

[Barb_D]

I completely agree that it's a matter of style - but your header doesn't read like a header.

"Services throughout France"
"Serving You throughout France"
etc.

Yours is a sentence.

 

[Allen165]

I completely agree that it's a matter of style - but your header doesn't read like a header.

"Services throughout France"
"Serving You throughout France"
etc.

Yours is a sentence.

Why do you have "throughout" in lowercase? I thought prepositions longer than five letters were always capitalized.

Thanks!

 

[Barb_D]

According to ONE style guide, you do that.

Other style guides see no logic in capitalizing "Throughout" but not "in" since they are the same part of speech. I follow those guides. Imagine if the guide said "Capitalize pronouns longer than two letters" -- you'd have he and it, but She and Him.

 

[Allen165]

According to ONE style guide, you do that.

Other style guides see no logic in capitalizing "Throughout" but not "in" since they are the same part of speech. I follow those guides. Imagine if the guide said "Capitalize pronouns longer than two letters" -- you'd have he and it, but She and Him.

Just so you know, Bryan Garner says that one should capitalize prepositions longer than five letters.

Anyway, thank you for your feedback.

 

[Barb_D]

Who is Bryan Garner?

 

[Allen165]

Who is Bryan Garner?

Very funny.

 

[Barb_D]

I missed the joke. Who is Bryan Garner?

 

[Allen165]

I missed the joke. Who is Bryan Garner?

Oh, no one special, only like the leading authority on the English language.

Bryan A. Garner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I know you're just pretending not to have heard of him.

 

[bhaisahab]

Oh, no one special, only like the leading authority on the English language.

Bryan A. Garner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I know you're just pretending not to have heard of him.

I had never heard of him, and I wouldn't call him the leading authority on the English language, far from it.

 

[Barb_D]

I have honestly never heard of him.

 

[Allen165]

I had never heard of him, and I wouldn't call him the leading authority on the English language, far from it.

Oh, color me surprised.