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Business English Level One

Chapter 13 Lab Assignment

Reinforcement Exercises - Capitalization

B. Capitalization. Proofread the following sentences to correct any capitalization errors. Mark those that are Correct with a "C".

1. The Actor Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight for refusing to stop playing words with friends on his Smartphone.
2. Do you think i should prepare the outline for today's Meeting using Arabic or Roman numerals?
3. The Abejuela Family visited rhode island during the Summer and soon learned why it is known as the ocean state. 
4. Cathy Paulsen took a Sabbatical during the Months of april and may, but she hopes to return to her Job by Summer. 
5. Our Company encourages Employees to earn Associate's and Bachelor's Degrees at nearby Colleges and Universities.
6. Nontraditional Students face the challenge of juggling full-time jobs while working on their Degrees.
7. The Post Office doesn't deliver mail to Steven Stark's home in the City of Santa Maria, California, anymore. 
8. Steven Stark, who owns an internet company, now gets all his mailed delivered Online. 
9. A company in beaverton, oregon, called earth class mail has developed Technology that makes digital mail possible.
10. People who receive digital mail worry about Mail Fraud and Identity Theft.
11. The united states postal service says it is losing a lot of business because of the increasing popularity of Digital Mail. 
12. All company representatives gathered in kansas city in the chouteau room of the hyatt regency crown center for the annual Spring sales meeting.
13. Work schedules will have to be adjusted in september for labor day.
14. Last Fall Tish Young took out a policy with the prudential life insurance company. (The word the is part of the company name.)
15. The green bay packers won the first super bowl in 1967.
16. Professor Solis used the socratic method of questioning students to elicit answers about Business Law. 
17. After driving through New York state, we stayed in New York city and visited the Empire State building. 
18. Bob Mensch completed the requirements for a Master's Degree at ucla. 
19. The Nonprofit organization kiva.com gives individuals the opportunity to make business loans to people in Developing Countries. 
20. The most popular snacks eaten during the super bowl are Chicken Wings, Tortilla Chips, Pizza, and Pretzels. 

Level 2

B. Capitalization. Proofread the following sentences to correct any capitalization errors. Mark those that are Correct with a "C".

1. A team of Physicists in california is using google's collection of scanned books to track the evolution of language. 
2. All Government Agencies must make their Websites accessible to the blind. 
3. U.S. district judge Marilyn Hall Patel authorized a Class-action Lawsuit against target corporation for failure to make its site accessible. 
4. Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss is proud that india was the first Country to ban images of smoking in all tv shows and new films.
5. My uncle louie recently purchased a ford focus to use for his trip to the east coast this fall.
6. Because brazil, australia, and argentina are located in the southern hemisphere, their Summers and Winters are the opposite of ours.
7. When the President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Labor traveled to minnesota, stringent security measures were put into place.
8. To locate the exact amount of Federal Funding, look on Line 7, Page 6 of supplement no. 4. 
9. Tony Fadell, one of the developers of the ipod, hurried to gate A84 to catch flight 250 to West Virginia. 
10. My Supervisor recommended that i read the book Marketing in the Age of Google.
11. Google was originally named googol; however, an angel investor made a check out to "Google, Inc.," and this typo became the company's name. 
12. Send all inquiries in writing to do won chang, CEO, forever 21, 2001 south alameda street, los angeles, California 90058.
13. SUBJECT: your report needed by friday.

Level 3

B. Capitalization. Proofread the following sentences to correct any capitalization errors. Mark those that are Correct with a "C".

1. A new employee of goldman sachs was surprised to read this rule in the Employee Handbook: "it is the policy of the firm to make no comment on rumors whatsoever, even to deny rumors you believe to be untrue.
2. Long considered the Ninth Planet, pluto lost this Classification in 2006. 
3. As the Sun beat down on the crowd, Eric Schmidt, former Chief Executive and current Chairman of google, delivered the graduation address to the students of UC Berkeley.
4. Would you like more coffee? No, I'm fine for now.
5. The fair labor standards act, which was passed in 1938, established the country's first minimum wage. 
6. Terry noticed that the english spoken by asians in hong kong sounded more british than american.
7. Our accounting department should mark this invoice "paid."
8. The Minutes of our last meeting contained the following statement: "the Vice President acted on behalf of the President, who was attending a conference in the far east."
9. Our Office Manager always uses "best regards" as is complimentary close.
10. Labor Specialists predict that these career fields will offer storing job growth through 2020:
    1. sales and marketing
    2. engineering
    3. computer systems
    4. accounting and finance
    5. renewable energy
    6. health care
    7. security service industries