Question

Which sentence uses capital letters correctly? A. The student wrote, "the Chinese introduced paper money." B. The student wrote, "The Chinese introduced paper money."

Answer 1

Sentence B uses capital letters correctly.

Answer 2

The sentence that uses capital letters correctly is option B. The student wrote, "The Chinese introduced paper money."

Capital letters tends to be used: for proper nouns; after a question or exclamation mark, to start a sentence, in the first word of a speech enclosed between inverted commas, as in this case. Acronyms also are written in capital letters, the whole word.