Why is I, always put as a capital letter regardless whether it is in the middle of a sentence when a isn't

Answer 1

I believe that it is because "I" is a name, the name that you give to yourself and therefor requires capitalisation. However I have always wondered that if "I" is a name then why is "me" not the same as surely this too is a name one calls ones self?

Answer 2

I don't agree with the others that gave the motivation " I is a proper pronoun, the substitute for yourself", because, all of them are substitute of a real person - known or unknown - all of them are PROPER pronouns. The fact that you KNOW your own name doesn't justify capitalization. You also know the name of the person you talk to, but you don't use capital letters. It must be some other reason for it.
Personally, I think it has something to do with the old writing - something linked with the ages when there was a king... Like, when he talked about himself, the scribe respectful, always put a capital letter... I don't know for sure, it's just an idea.

Answer 3

I is a proper pronoun. It takes the place of your name. For example, if your name is Jim, you wouldn't say "Jim is tired." That's third person. If you were to leave "I" uncapitalized, you would be calling your name a common noun. It's like when you should or should not capitalize dad or mom, ect. You should put your dad's name in the place of dad to figure out if it should be capitalized. For instance, in the sentence, "Grandpa played with dad when he was little," you could say "Grandpa played with John (dad) when he was little." John is dad's name. it is replaced by Dad in the first sentence. Opposed to that, when you said, "My dad is so cool," you wouldn't capitalize dad, because that would be saying my John. My is a possesive adjective, therefore anything after that is yours.

Answer 4

Doubtless there's a historical explanation but I don't think there's a good logical reason. 'I' is a personal pronoun but so are 'you', 'she', 'he', 'we' and 'they'. We don't capitalise these, so there's no consistent reason for capitalising 'I'.

Not all languages capitalise their 'I'-word : Latin 'ego' goes in lower-case except at the start of a sentence.

Interesting side point : 'a' - the indefinite article. I'd say it's a form of adjective. It does describe a noun, after all, in the sense of telling us there's one of something rather than none or two of whatever's in question.

Answer 5

In English, the nominative form of the singular first-person pronoun, "I", is capitalized, along with all its contractions (I'll, I'm, etc).
Because you're talking about yourself, the I is used in place of your "proper name" (1st person pronoun) and proper names are always capitalized.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization

Answer 6

It's a convention. As a single letter, it is written as a capital.
We're all egoists, so we're the most important. Like God, He (referring to Jesus).
I represents a proper name, OK, but so does he/she.
James said /he said - or He said.
Can't be right!

Answer 7

'I' equates to your name which is a proper noun. Therefore, the capital I must be used.

Missingora - 'a' is an indefinite article not an adjective.

Answer 8

I do the same and have to go back through my words to change them the right format.. I hope someone knows the answer to this one.

Addition
Soz I mis read the question, lol but still don't know the answer soz

Answer 9

I represents someone's name a does not. John,Fred etc have capitals

Answer 10

Because all nouns for uniqueness have a captial - as there is only one I then it's a captial -

It would look silly if you wrote "David and i are ...."
when it's a 'mine' then there are any things that are mine - but it's harder to say why it's not a Me instead of me - as in
"Stop that, you are hurting me."