![]() But both the Modern Language Association Manual of Style and the Chicago Manual of Style prefer that all prepositions be lowercased, including longer ones such as between, among, and throughout. Some style books used to advocate capitalizing longer prepositions. Style Books Differ on the Issue of Which Words to Capitalize in Titles The preposition about and the infinitive marker to ( to ask), however, are correctly lower cased. Sentence 3 incorrectly capitalizes the conjunction but. In sentence 2, the infinitive marker to and the preposition in should not be capitalized. Notice that the prepositions to and on are correctly lower cased. In sentence 1, the article the should not be capitalized. the word “to” that marks infinitives ( to walk, to run, to play, etc.). ![]() ![]() coordinating conjunctions ( and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet), and.prepositions (regardless of their length),. ![]() The guidelines are fairly consistent from one style book to another* when determining which words to capitalize in a title: unless they are the first or the last words in a title, do not capitalize the first letters of
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