Uppercase and lowercase letter – letters daily used for writing. The first is a capital letter (large), and the second smaller (small).
Initially, when writing used only capital letters, where the boundaries (upper and lower) were clearly defined. Over time, cursive writing developed, letters have gained a more rounded shape. Thus arose the foundations of the so-called minuscule letters of the Carolingians, which was developed by the scholar Alcuin. Used it at the court of Charlemagne, and eventually spread this letter all over Europe. So for the first time a single text was to contain uppercase and lowercase letters.
Uppercase and lowercase is one of the most challenging problems of the modern Russian spelling. The constant change of reality entails a change of writing these letters. So you need to constantly study the new publications of handbooks and dictionaries that must necessarily reflect such innovations.
But, despite this, there are basic principles of the use of uppercase and lowercase letters. They help to understand the writing big and small letters even if a word in the dictionary is missing.
Written With a capital letter:
The Lowercase letter is written if it is a part:
Recommended
"Knowledge is light and ignorance is darkness": the value, meaning and alternatives
There are some sayings that would seem to need no explanation, such as “teaching & ndash; light and ignorance – darkness”. But some still do not understand their meaning. But not only for such people is written by our article. I...
What was invented by Mendeleev for the army. The history and fate of the invention
D. I. Mendeleev was a brilliant Russian scientist-polymath, who made many important discoveries in various fields of science and technology. Many people know that he is the author of “Fundamentals of chemistry" and the periodic law of chem...
The origin of the Slavs. The influence of different cultures
Slavs (under this name), according to some researchers, appeared in the story only in 6 century ad. However, the language of nationality bears the archaic features of the Indo-European community. This, in turn, suggests that the origin of the Slavs h...
Lowercase letter written in the names:
Having Studied the above rules, there are basic principles on which used uppercase and lowercase letters. So:
1) Lowercase letter is written to nick-names lowercase-names-morphological principle.
2) the capital letter is written in the common names, endowed with a special symbolism or pathos (People, Fatherland), in the names of holidays (New year, Victory Day) – semantic principle.
3) the capital letter is used in abbreviations composed of the first letters.
As already mentioned, the lowercase letter is written in adjectives that contain the suffix -SK- denoting identity and formed from proper names. Therefore, "Pushkin's prose" is written in small letters. But the possessive adjectives with the suffix -SK- with a value name in honor of someone's memory, are written with capital letters. For example, "Lomonosov readings".
In connection with the rapid development of information technologies, wide popularity was received by the Microsoft Office Word, which is almost indispensable in the labour and educational process. But few people know how to make lowercase from uppercase, and Vice versa with one click of some keys.
So, write in capital letters the following text:
"the LOWERCASE LETTERS of the RUSSIAN ALPHABET".
Now you need to highlight the text and press Shift and F3 simultaneously. After that, we get:
"the lowercase letters of the Russian alphabet".
After pressing combinations of these keys will receive the following:
"the Lowercase Letters of the Russian Alphabet".
And to revert to the original text, again to press Shift+F3.
Article in other languages:
AR: https://tostpost.com/ar/education/9607-lowercase-terms-of-use.html
BE: https://tostpost.com/be/adukacyya/17272-malaya-l-tara-prav-ly-zhyvannya.html
DE: https://tostpost.com/de/bildung/17278-kleinbuchstabe-regeln-f-r-die-verwendung.html
ES: https://tostpost.com/es/la-educaci-n/17286-la-letra-min-scula-reglas-de-consumo.html
HI: https://tostpost.com/hi/education/9618-lowercase-terms-of-use.html
JA: https://tostpost.com/ja/education/9617-lowercase-terms-of-use.html
KK: https://tostpost.com/kk/b-l-m/17267-zhol-ba-anynda-y-rp-oldanu-erezhes.html
PL: https://tostpost.com/pl/edukacja/17245-litera-zasady-stosowania.html
PT: https://tostpost.com/pt/educa-o/17247-a-letra-min-scula-as-regras-de-uso-de.html
TR: https://tostpost.com/tr/e-itim/17278-k-k-harf-kurallar-kullan-m.html
UK: https://tostpost.com/uk/osv-ta/17259-ryadkova-bukva-pravila-vzhivannya.html
ZH: https://tostpost.com/zh/education/10464-lowercase-terms-of-use.html
Alin Trodden - author of the article, editor
"Hi, I'm Alin Trodden. I write texts, read books, and look for impressions. And I'm not bad at telling you about it. I am always happy to participate in interesting projects."
Related News
The Order Of St. Anna. Orders of the Russian Empire
the Order of St. Anne was founded in 1735, Duke Karl Friedrich, a German by birth. He in 1725 married the daughter of Emperor Peter the great, Anna. Originally the order was supposed to be the dynastic awards, but later his status...
The notion of form of state and its elements
When describing any state always draws attention to the fact, what land areas it includes, the number and density of population, forms of organizational Board, the nature of the political regime, level of economic development. The...
Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov
the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, who ascended the throne in 1645, was the second ruler of the Romanov dynasty and the tenth in Russia by the Emperor. the Son of Mikhail Fedorovich grew up surrounded by “moms” and “u...
What to write an essay "comparison of Grineva and Sabrina"?
One of the most difficult creative tasks in the classroom literature – comparative characteristics of the characters. It can be characters with similar stories from different works. For example, often offer students associat...
J. P. Morgan: a biography of the great financier
Some people are born to leave a bright trace in history. They can be remembered as positive or negative heroes, but in any case, these unusual little people, and biography of great interest to future generations. J. P. Morgan is o...
Brazil: natural resources and terrain features
the Country is Brazil located in South America and occupies almost most of it. In the local area is mainly dominated by low-lying terrain.the State has many mineral deposits scattered almost throughout Brazil, however, most of the...
Comments (0)
This article has no comment, be the first!