Study the Rules of Usage below to ensure you meet the Standard Conventions.

Rules of Usage

1. Medications and Diseases
2. Proper Nouns:
3. Common Nouns: Common Nouns do not name any specific institution, place, person or profession
4. Holidays, Months, Days of the week all need to be capitalized.
5. Pronoun “I” must be Capital.
6. Capitalized the first Word of a salutation and the first words of a complimentary.

SIMPLE PAST TENCE

Format

• Active: Subject + Verb (ed) + Object
• Passive: Object + was/were + Past Participle + by + Subject

Time Phrase

• 2 Hours / Month / Days / Years ago
• Yesterday
• in 1970
• Last Month / year/ week