User:Mairi/English orthography

Capitalization
English uses capitalization to mark the beginning of sentences, and certain classes of words. The first letter of the first word of a sentence is always capitalized.

Proper nouns in English are capitalized. These include personal names, geographic places, languages, days of the week, and months. Multi-word names, for example titles of novels, are written in titlecase, in which most words are capitalized, but there is significant variation on which words are not. Adjectives derived from proper nouns are similarity capitalized, e.g. Christian, American, Shakesperean, except where the derived adjective as become a common word, e.g. quixotic.

In addition, the first-person singular nominative pronoun I is capitalized. No other pronouns are always capitalized.

Punctuation
English uses a variety of punctuation characters to mark phrases and sentences. Sentences are followed by '.' (period), '?' (question mark) or '!' (exclamation mark) depending on the type of sentence.

Spacing
Modern English, like other modern languages that use the Latin alphabet, employs spacing between words. When punctuation follows a word, there is no space between the word and the punctuation, and there is a space between the punctuation and the following word.