If the word mom is in a sentence should it be capitalized or lowercase???
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“Mom made me chocolate chip cookies.”
If you use mom like you’re telling her relationship to you, DON’T capitalize.
“My mom is brilliant.”
Can you tell I used to teach English? 🙂
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If the word mom is in a sentence should it be capitalized or lowercase???
When using my, your, our, etc. before the word, it isn’t used as a capital because it isn’t considered a proper noun. When directly using “Mom” in a sentence, it is always capitalized, just as you would a name.
This is what i remember from high school. You should double check with your teacher!
If you’re making up words, what do you care if your capitalization is proper? If we’re paying attention to some grammar rules and not others, Ima would be capitalized in the same way its first part, I’m, is. But to be totally grammatically proper, you wouldn’t be using “Ima” as a word at all. The actual phrase closest to the meaning of “Ima,” I believe, would be not “I’m a,” but “I’m going to.” It seems Ima is a very strange contraction indeed. I think it came from “I’m gonna,” a slang phrase itself. If that phrase was shortened according to the usual rules of contractions, there would be apostrophes in both places where there are missing letters, leading to “I’m’a,” which looks kind of weird. Ima just take them both out and say “Ima” is correct(ish).
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