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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by questionable capitalization like that lower

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case F everywhere in facebook Seriously like who taught mark

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zuckerberg grammar All right First read the passage below from

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a press release All right now click the drop down

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menu and choose the option that correctly completes the sins

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Yeah all right here we go Well the options are

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helping hands helping hands helping you is helping in play

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like that All right Well capitalizations important It's what business

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people do to value stock and what writers should do

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tio not seem clueless like that All right Well in

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this passage helping hand seems to be the name of

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some philanthropic organization run by the company because it's a

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proper noun it's only proper to capitalize it So answer

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is out Unless of course the website were actually made

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out of hundreds of helping hands but that would be

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creepy All right but how do we capitalize website Well

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if website here this thing we're part of the actual

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title of the website It'd be capitalized but that's pretty

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unlikely It's not like mcdonald's is called mcdonald's restaurant there's

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not just the one yeah and there's definitely no reason

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to capitalize both webb and sight unless this were the

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name of some cool spider man themed restaurant Unfortunately it

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isn't This is just unordinary website So it's lower case

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which may be the correct answer Now if only we

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could teach proper capitalization to the rest of the web

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Like seriously what is the internet have against capital letter 00:01:40.989 --> [endTime] money People

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