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APA Style is a “down” style, meaning that words are lowercase unless there is specific guidance to capitalize them such as words beginning a sentence; proper nouns and trade names; job titles and positions; diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms; titles of works and headings within works; titles of tests and measures; nouns followed by numerals or letters; names of ...
The capitalization of geographic terms in English text generally depends on whether the author perceives the term as a proper noun, in which case it is capitalized, or as a combination of an established proper noun with a normal adjective or noun, in which case the latter are not capitalized. There are no universally agreed lists of English ...
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
Common nouns for deities and religious figures are not capitalized (many gods; the god Woden; saints and prophets). Pronouns for figures of veneration or worship are not capitalized, even if capitalized in a religion's scriptures ( God and his will ).
If a name is composed of a common noun and a proper noun, and the name has not been established as an actual name (i.e.: it really is isolated to the context), would the common noun part of the name be capitalized, or would rules for capitalization still apply, forbidding capitals on the common noun?
There is only one bear that is called a Grizzly bear. There are thousands of Grizzly bears. In the first case it is a proper noun in the second case it is a common noun that is capitalized. Go figure. Apteva 22:19, 20 September 2012 (UTC) [citation needed] Do you apply this logic to everything?
Alternatively, it could be possible that Trump simply doesn't know the conventions of English capitalization, which generally dictate that only proper nouns and the first word of a sentence get ...
A proper adjective/adverb (often called "modifiers") must modify a noun or verb (the "head"). For example, the creator of the language, Sonja Lang, uses the name jan Sonja. jan is a noun meaning "person", and it is modified by her first name. This can be extended to other proper nouns, such as ma Kanata "Canada", in which ma means place.