Marjorie studied French at university. Hal is majoring in English. She is interested in history. He reads articles on economics and biology in his spare time. He passed with a B in history this term. Academic years and grades Do not capitalize terms designating academic years: Celia held two jobs during her senior year.
Improve this answer. That is what happens with the physics units: joule, watt, erg, etc. Elements are common nouns. So the answer is no, they are not capitalized. Community Bot 1. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Linked 2. Within a sentence: We used boron and zinc in the experiment. Vinegar contains acetic acid. Improve this answer.
Community Bot 1. This was not necessarily wrong since most examples started on a new line. However, this practice has been abandoned in the recommendations in order to ensure that names of organic compounds are not considered as proper nouns. Show 7 more comments. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.
Sign up using Email and Password. You should capitalize school subjects when they are proper nouns. But which school subjects are proper nouns? When you are talking about a school subject in a general way, you do not need to capitalize it unless it is the name of a language. For example, math and chemistry do not need to be capitalized, but French and Spanish do need to be capitalized because they are proper nouns. When you are talking about the name of a specific class or course, such as Math or Chemistry , always capitalize it.
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