Do I have to capitalize "my grandma" in the sentence below?
Another thing that changed my life was my grandma.
2006-09-05 13:06:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
your grandmother is a pronoun (a pronoun is an important noun, a name, or a person), so you wont get in trouble if you do capitalize it, or be marked down for it, because your grandmother was important to you. but you dont have to. (you wont get in trouble for it if you dont.) so it really doesnt matter. did you like your grandmother? is she or was she an important part of your family, and who you are today? then maybe you should capitalize her name, to keep her memory alive, and to honor her. but nobody is going to mark you down, for doing one or the other.
but either way, you dont need to capitalize "my" in "my grandma" my is not part of her title, whether or not you are putting her full title "grandma watson, grandma smith" you arent supposed to capitalize the word "my" unless you're using it to begin a sentance, or its part of a title "My Movie" "My Report" this is the only time you are supposed to capitalize "my". but nobody is going to say anything one way or the other if you choose to capitalize "grandma". its all your preferance, and depends on weather or not she was important in your life. if your teacher is strict, she might say "why did you capitalize grandma?" and you can say "i think even when i am not using her formal title, (her actual name) i still want to keep her memory alive, and capitalize her title in whatever form i'm talking about her in."
however, in the future, when you come across a sentance like:
"Today my survey showed an increase in grandmothers likeing this new invention."
you dont need to capitalize "grandmother" in this sentance, because, although you were talking about several people, who did have names, and if you used any of their actual names, you would have had to capitalize them, you do not have to capitalize "grandmother" in the last sentance above.
2006-09-05 13:14:41 · answer #1 · answered by ASLotaku 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No you don't. The only time you have to capitalize the word "my" or "grandma" would be at the beginning of a sentence.
2006-09-05 20:14:33 · answer #2 · answered by robin rmsclvr25 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. You only need to capitalize "grandma" if you use it as part of her name or in place of her name. Once you put "my" in front of it, you don't need to capitalize it.
For example, "Another thing that changed my life was Grandma Jones." "I need to talk to Grandma, and ask her what to do." If you can substitute a name in place of "grandma" then you need to capitalize it.
2006-09-05 20:16:02 · answer #3 · answered by happygirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can capitalize Grandma because that's the name you call her. It's a proper noun.'
2006-09-05 20:12:23 · answer #4 · answered by Bluealt 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You do not have to capitalize my grandma!
2006-09-05 20:21:50 · answer #5 · answered by zoril 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you dont. you only would if it were a proper noun.
ex: Another thing that changed my life was my grandma, Edna
2006-09-05 20:10:46 · answer #6 · answered by jsweit8573 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes because in this case she is a proper noun. proper nouns are always capotalized
2006-09-05 20:08:44 · answer #7 · answered by telmougy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋