I understand that you are supposed to capitalize the first letter, as well as “main” words. What I don’t quite get is what am I supposed to not capitalize. Especially, verbs and prepositions.
To? In? Through? Except? Are? Is? Into?
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In English, the convention is to capitalize the first letter of the first word plus any words that aren’t articles (the, a, this, that) or prepositions (with, of, from). However, if the title *starts* with an article or preposition, you’d still capitalize it.
For example, “The Cat in the Hat” would be correct. The first “The” is capitalized because it’s the first word of the title. “In” and the second “the” are not capitalized because they’re an article and a preposition. “Cat” and “Hat” are both capitalized because they’re neither articles nor prepositions.
In most other languages I’ve looked at, the convention is to capitalize the first letter of the first word, but follow normal capitalization rules for any additional words (so, all nouns for German, proper nouns only for Spanish, etc).
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