Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 2 AIL 0137 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Capitals in the Middle of Sentences
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The idea
Sheridan capitalises Bachelor, Wife and Grace inside his sentences, following eighteenth-century practice. A capital there marks no emphasis and no personification. Modern printings regularise it away, and the exam prints the regularised form.
In practice
A capital marks nothing in particular.
Where people slip
Do not read emphasis into capitals.
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