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  • @TQuid@beehaw.org
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    02 years ago

    The rule is that you don’t capitalize prepositions (“of”, “in”, etc.), conjunctions (“and”, “but”, “or”, etc.), or articles (“the”, “a”, “an”). There might be a couple odd cases but those should be enough to keep you out of trouble with the people that get mad about Oxford commas. :-)

    • @Pseu@beehaw.org
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      22 years ago

      Careful, you only capitalize prepositions of three letters or shorter by default. Though different style guides might say otherwise: Chicago style doesn’t capitalize any prepositions, while MLA doesn’t capitalize any words 3 letters or fewer (which presumably could lead to the odd lowercase “i”). And AP doesn’t capitalize any words 3 letters or fewer unless they happen to be verbs.

      https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/capitalization/rules-for-capitalization-in-titles.html

      • @TQuid@beehaw.org
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        22 years ago

        Interesting, and thanks for clarifying that! I was completely unaware of this nuance.

    • @VoxAdActa@beehaw.org
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      22 years ago

      Depending on the style guide, some prepositions are capitalized. For example, AMA says to capitalize prepositions that are 4 or more letters long (then, after, etc).