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Help
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:34 am
by LYR
Yes, I do create a new topic every time I need help with something.
If you are referring to the Olympic Games, which one of these would be the correct way to do so?
"The 1908 Games held in Great Britain"
or
"The 1908 games held in Great Britain"
Basically, do I capitalize the "g" in "games?"
Re: Help
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:37 am
by Skittles!
Well, you would probably use "The 1908 Olympics, held in Great Britain" so you would not have to use games, but it always depends on the context of the sentence.
Re: Help
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:39 am
by owheelj
I think you should capitalise it because you're talking about a specific event - so it should be a proper noun.
Re: Help
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:41 am
by LYR
owheelj wrote:I think you should capitalise it because you're talking about a specific event - so it should be a proper noun.
That is what I was thinking, but I was looking at some of the documents I was given to use as sources and they have the g lowercased.
Skittles! wrote:Well, you would probably use "The 1908 Olympics, held in Great Britain" so you would not have to use games, but it always depends on the context of the sentence.
I would, but it would be extremely repetitive. This is possibly the most boring essay I have ever written. Ever.
Re: Help
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:42 am
by john9blue
At any rate, we know you have the entire Internet to select from, so we would like to thank you for choosing Conquer Club forums for your grammatical needs!
Re: Help
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:06 am
by jonesthecurl
LYR wrote:owheelj wrote:I think you should capitalise it because you're talking about a specific event - so it should be a proper noun.
That is what I was thinking, but I was looking at some of the documents I was given to use as sources and they have the g lowercased.
Skittles! wrote:Well, you would probably use "The 1908 Olympics, held in Great Britain" so you would not have to use games, but it always depends on the context of the sentence.
I would, but it would be extremely repetitive. This is possibly the most boring essay I have ever written. Ever.
I wouod say that if you are talking about the entire Olympic Games, then to say just "Games" is effectively an abbreviation and thus retains the capital. If you are taking about a subset of the events, it becomes "games" - although thinkibng about it if you're talking about a subset, you'd probably say £events£ anyway - "the swimming events", "the equestrain events", etc.
Lord you'r eright about how boring this is, I would go so zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz