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Following our last entry about uppercases usage in Spanish, we will be focusing on the instances regarding capital letters in whole sentences and at the beginning of certain nouns regardless of the punctuation before them.<\/p>\n

You will find many examples of whole phrases written in uppercase, like the names of literary works printed on covers, main headlines on newspapers, and titles, sections or chapters in a book.<\/p>\n

In the same vein, abbreviations formed with less than four letters\u2014like \u201cISBN\u201d\u2014 are typically shown in capital letters. Any acronym made up of more than four letter just need its first letter to be capitalized (like \u201cUnesco\u201d), and all those having become proper nouns in themselves are treated as regular common nous (like \u201cl\u00e1ser\u201d from \u201claser\u201d or \u201covni\u201d from \u201cUFO\u201d.)<\/p>\n

Generally, uppercase letters are also applied for a whole sentence whenever you need to convey an important message on a board or using either a sign or a poster.<\/p>\n

Now regarding nouns starting with capital letters, there are many different examples where Spanish and English shows different rules:<\/p>\n