do you capitalize the word uncle or aunt in a essay?

Question

i am writing a book report and i have no idea if you cap it or not please help me out, this report counts for a huge chunk of my grade!

Answer 1

The best way to explain this is with examples:

"My aunt, Marge, was fat."

"My Aunt Marge was fat."

"Aunt Marge, you are fat."

"That is not to say that aunts are generally fat."

"I am referencing the Aunt Marges of this world."

Basically, if you're writing "aunt" as a name, capitalize it as you would any other name. If you are speaking of aunts in a general sense, do not capitalize.

Answer 2

Hi - you only capitalize if you are prefacing it with a proper name such as "Uncle John" or "Aunt Bea". If you are saying something like, "my uncle went to the store", then it is small-case. Basically use the proper noun rule - if it is used as a proper noun (a name/place etc.) then you would capitalize.

Good luck on the essay!

Answer 3

I believe that when you use it in a sentence and say Uncle John, or Aunt Bertha, then you capitalize it.

But if you just refer to someone as an aunt or uncle it doesn't have to be capitalized.
Example: I had an aunt who baked a cake without burning it.

Answer 4

Only capitalize those words when using them as part of proper nouns, as in, "My Aunt Joan and Uncle Tim came to visit." When you're just using them as improper nouns, they're lower-case, as in, "My aunt and uncle came to visit." Good luck with your report!

Answer 5

I don't typically capitalize it by itself anyway. But when I say something like Uncle Bob, I do. I'm not sure that this would count as a big grammar mistake though, if you did it wrong.

Answer 6

It depends...if your referring to them like just as aunt or uncle don't capitalize them. But if you say like Uncle Tom or Aunt Betty then you need to capitalize them.

Answer 7

you don't unless it is in the beginning of a sentence or after quotation marks for instance.. I won the lottery and cried, "Aunt Jenny I won." Also, if its just the word aunt then you don't need to capitalize it. If the word aunt is followed by your aunt's name then it needs to be capitalize at all times for instance...I told Aunt Jenny to pick me up. I told my aunt to pick me up. (See the difference)

Answer 8

Of course you would use upper case for the first letter of each word. They are nouns. And nouns are names. And names always require the first letter to be in upper case. Same with Mum and Dad.

Answer 9

No, you don't but if it used before a Proper Noun like the name of a person, you can.

Answer 10

you don't capitalize the actual word aunt or uncle, but you would capitilize their names. for example, aunt Mary.