N Namely. The conjunctive adverb namely is used to specify relations between clauses. Names. When things or people have words that identify them as speci c individuals, those words are called names Jan served on the battleship North Carolina sailing in the Paci c and spent leisure time reading War and Peace.” Names of things and people are usually marked in someway to distinguish them from more general nouns—by capitalization or by italics (or both. There are several categories or types of names that are treated somewhat differently. N AMES OF P EOPLE Personal names are capitalized John and Mary are here When common nouns are used as personal names, they are capitalized as well Father is here, but Mother is in Detroit.” Common nouns that refer to relatives are not capitalized when they standalone, but are capitalized when they have personal names added to them My uncle is dead, but Aunt Mary is still with us Non-English names are sometimes not capitalized, particularly parts of last names Ludwig van Beethoven’s symphonies were being played Honori c titles are also capitalized when parts of names, but not prepositions, conjunctions, or articles in them Prince Joseph of Holland and the Low Countries See capitalization and specific languages.
