Help with my capitals!?

Question

I am doing a college assignment and i always bug myself about the capitals in the title. i have wrote it like this:
Unit G1, Ensure Your Actions Reduce the Risks to Health and Safety.
Is this right??

Answer 1

The capitalization is okay, nothing wrong there. However, the title would be much better if it were written as follows: Unit G1: Ensure Your Actions Will Reduce the Risks to Health and Safety. The way to remember what needs to be capitalized in a title is not to capitalize only prepositions and articles. Prepositions are words such as in, around, to, while articles are words such as a, an & the. The only time prepositions and articles should be capitalized is when they are the first word in the title. Everything else should be capitalized. People are keying titles in all capitals now, but it isn't correct. Neither is underlining the title since underlining in a manuscript indicates that the underlined text should be italicized when and if it is printed.

A colon absolutely needs to be placed after G1. Will, or something similar, is need to connect the idea of Reduce to the subject Your Actions. As is, the thought is incomplete. The title corrected as I have indicated is accurate and complete.

Good luck on you assignment.

By the way, it is not correct to say or write "have wrote." When using have, the verb has to change to what is called a perfect form, in this case "have written." So you sentence above should have been written, "I have written it like this:" And here you used the colon correctly. Good job there.

Answer 2

Not really
You put a capital to start the first word then lower case for the rest unless you have a title of a company or a place.
If your Health and Safety is a department you have these two words correct.
There is a case where all the first letters are capitals and that is where they are used as a song title.
With books you can have a mixture.

So I would write your sentence thus:-
Unit G1. Ensure your actions reduce the risk to health and safety. If it is aimed at the person and not the body named Health and Safety.

I would suggest the grammar needs another look.
You have two plurals in Actions and Risks when you should only have one.
If Heath and Safety is referring to your person, I would write:-
Ensure your action reduces the risk to your health and safety.

Check what I have suggested.
I too could be wrong.

Answer 3

Unit G1, Ensure your Actions Reduce the Risks to Health and Safety.

I think that it is like this.

Answer 4

Unit G1, Ensure Your Actions, Reduce the Risks to Health and Safety. Yeah, you have it done fine. I know the "Your" looks awkward, but it looks awkward either way.

Answer 5

Congratulations, you have got it right! So many people do not use capital letters correctly in titles and it is so annoying - I won't repeat the good advice others have already given you. Just change your comma to a colon.

Good luck with your assignment.

Answer 6

Usual rule is to capitalise all the important words.

Thus you might leave the capitals off of the conjunctions and pronouns.

In this particular example, and assuming that you are in UK, I should point out that "Health and Safety" is an "official" title and expression, so you best leave that capitalised anyway.

Answer 7

It's OK except you should use a colon (:) after G1 instead of a comma

and

do not use a period after Safety (just being careful here. You probably wouldn't anyhow.).

ADDED: The "the" after "Reduce" isn't needed. Delete it.

Answer 8

If this is a heading or essay title you may use all capitals and underline for effect..if its just a small sub category of a larger piece then usually only the first letter of the first word would be in capitals. In this case it looks to be a heading and the text is significantly important to warrent capitals.

Answer 9

The title is fine. Though, as has been pointed out, it should be a colon after "G1", not a comma.

Answer 10

Looks right to me. Generally it's only things like prepositions and so on that are put all lowercase, all the nouns and verbs and adjectives are capitalized.