Test your knowledge of when to use capitals with job titles with this quiz.
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Which of the job titles have the correct capitals? (According to The Chicago Manual of Style.)
a) Speakers included the prime minister of Canada and Justin Bieber.
b) I wrote to communications officer Jane Sewell yesterday.
c) Daniel Smith, architect.
d) Please take a seat, prime minister.
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Answers
a) Correct
b) Incorrect
c) Correct
d) Incorrect
Chicago rules on capitalisation of job titles: capitalise when it comes immediately before the name, in a formal context or in direct address. Don’t capitalise if it comes after the person’s name, or if there is a the before it.
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