Names of nine planets? Starting from the sun and moving outward we have Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, but bear in mind that Pluto has been reclassified as â¦ a dwarf planet, so the solar system has only 8 planets.
I made the decision not to follow AP style in the case of âBlackâ and âwhiteâ when it applies to describing people in 2009. AP style is to capitalize neither; however, terms such as African American, Negro, Caucasian, Italian American or Asian are all capitalized.
This Writer's Block page on capitalization sums up the rules in one page which is the most useful that I have found, basically these rules from the Chicago Manual of Style plus a number of minor rules which are worth reading: 1  Always capitalize the first and the last word. Capitalize all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinate conjunctions (as, because, although). Lowercase all articles, coordinate conjunctions (and, or, nor), and prepositions regardless of length, when they are other than the first or last word.