Why do you have to capitalize the letter I even though it is not at the beginning of a sentence?

Answer 1

Perhaps because it comes from the germanic language tree and they capitalize all nouns. Not sure, however.

Answer 2

Because it refers to you, taking the place of your name, and your name always starts with a capital letter.

Answer 3

First of all, it's not a proper noun, it's a pronoun. "John" is a man's name, a proper noun. "I," "you," and "he" are all pronouns that can take the place of "John" depending on whether John is talking about himself, somebody else is talking to John, or somebody else is talking about John.

Capitalizing the first person singular pronoun is simply the custom in English. In German, "ich," which means "I," is not capitalized unless it's the first word of a sentence. But all nouns, whether or not they're proper nouns, are capitalized in German. That's the custom in that language. Different strokes for different Volk.

Answer 4

I is important because everyone is one and they should all stand up in one they believe in. and by capitalizing it its easier for teachers to take off points on ur paper. jk

Answer 5

... because it's YOU. You know how you have to capitalize names? You don't refer to yourself as Claire or whatever, you refer to yourself as 'I'

That has NO grammatical background, obviously, it's just the way I've always thought about it.

Answer 6

Because 'I' is a proper noun, and all proper nouns are capiltlised - like Monday, December and Gustav.