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Help with capital letters?

zeebre12 · 2017-12-20 20:31:52

I'm just correcting tests at the moment and there's a sentence 'She lives in county offaly'. Should 'county' be in capital letters as well as Offaly? If so why is this?

20-12-2017 09:31PM

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I'm just correcting tests at the moment and there's a sentence 'She lives in county offaly'. Should 'county' be in capital letters as well as Offaly? If so why is this?

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#2 20-12-2017 09:58PM

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#3 20-12-2017 10:36PM

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As I see it, County Offaly is the name of a place so it is a proper noun and should have a capital letter.
In a sentence like, “She plays for the county team,” it doesn’t refer to a place so no capital.

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