Grammar help, please!

Question

Whew. Some of my questions are about BASEBALL. I don't know hardly anything about baseball. Like one of the questions asked what the biggest event in baseball was (I found out it was the World Series). Here's some of the questions I don't get:

1) That hemingway novel is set during the spanish civil war.

(I know Hemingway is capitalized and so is Spanish, but is civil war?)

2) The baseball hall of fame is in cooperstown, new york.

(I know that Cooperstown, New York is capitalized. But what about baseball hall of fame? Would hall of fame just be capitalized or should baseball be capitalized, too?)

3) If you want passport information, you should contact the state department in washington, d.c. (Would state department be capitalized?)

And also one last thing. Would Atlantic ocean be correct, or should it be Atlantic Ocean? I know that some of these are no-brainers, but I just want to make sure I'm doing the questions right. Please only answer if you know the correct way to capitalize these! Thank you so much!

Answer 1

Persons, places, and things are ALWAYS capitalized. Ocean would be capitalized. Think about it.

Answer 2

Civil war is capitalized because it is the name of the war. Baseball Hall of Fame should all be capitalized because it is the name of the place. State Department should be capitalized because it is (again) the name of a place. Atlantic and Ocean are also both capitalized. Hope that helps!

Answer 3

1. yes civil war should be capitalized because it is talking about a certain war, not just any war.

2.baseball hall of fame should be capitalized.

3.state department should not be capitalized.

Answer 4

1. _For Whom the Bell Tolls._ Spanish civil war = Francistas against the loyalists

2. It's called the National Baseball Hall of Fame, capitalized like that.

3. Yes. Its formal name is the State Department or Department of State

Atlantic Ocean is its full title, but those of us who like to swim in it or fly across it sometimes get familiar and call it the Atlantic or the Pond.