What functions do capital letters perform?

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In the article you will learn:

What about capitalizing proper names?
In what cases are capital letters used to express respect or emphasis?
What is considered a new sentence, so it is capitalized.
What confuses us and where we often go wrong
Why and how to write without errors
3 functions of capital letters
If we decide to use a capital letter in a word, it can serve one of three functions:

The given word is a proper name or title.
The writer attaches considerable importance or respect to the word (especially when addressing it ).
This is the beginning of a new sentence.
The codification of this issue is enshrined in the Rules of Czech Spelling, which underwent france phone number data significant revision in 1993, bringing several partial changes.

Proper names play a leading role
First, we will address the issue of proper nouns, which are usually "nouns or word combinations in which the noun is the basis and distinguishes certain persons, animals or things from similar individuals " - at least that's what the rules of Czech orthography say.

For people, it's quite simple: Karel, Jana, Novák, Novotná.

But proper names also include the following:

members of the same name – the Přemyslids, the Nováks,
members of nations and tribes – Czechs, Apaches,
inhabitants of a place called by their own name – Praguers.
And then there are proper names of things, places, etc. (names), where you can come across various "extras". For example, you have to distinguish whether it is a common or proper name .