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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 373. The title of today's

  • lesson is "When to Capitalize the Word Earth and When not to Capitalize the

  • Word Earth. " Yeah. This one can be tricky. I know students of ESL are confused about

  • it and even native speakers sometimes get confused about when they should

  • capitalize the word earth and when not to. Anyway, let's take

  • a look at the note here. All names of planets are capitalized. When the word

  • earth refers to the planet and it's used as the planet's name or its proper name.

  • It is definitely capitalized. So it's capitalized in that situation. The word

  • is definitely not capitalized when the the word earth refers to dirt or soil.

  • Okay. It is also not capitalized when it is a common noun and preceded ...

  • preceded means it's coming before by "the. " In this case it is not really a you know,

  • used like as its name. Okay. So let's look at a number of examples here. Number one.

  • She answered Earth was the third planet from the Sun. So this is probably a

  • situation where maybe a student was asked what is the third planet from the Sun ? And she

  • answered Earth is the third planet from the Sun. So in this case, Earth is

  • definitely capitalized. It's referring to the planet and it's referring to its

  • name. All right. Number two. Do you think any aliens ever traveled to Earth ?

  • Definitely the planet , definitely its proper name. Yeah. It would be capitalized

  • here. All right. Number three. Halley's comet passes Earth every 75 to 76 years. Yeah.

  • Again, definitely the planet. Definitely referring to its name. The name of the

  • planet. All right. Number four here. How far do they need to dig into the earth ?

  • All right. Now in this case, it's not the planet. It's really referring to like

  • dirt or soil or land. In that case, it's not capitalized. So it

  • has a small" e" here. Number five. He was buried under the earth when that mine

  • collapsed. Yeah. Again this, means dirt or land. You know he was in a mine. It collapsed on

  • top of him. This really doesn't refer to the planet. It would be weird if it were

  • the planet. It sounds like the whole planet was sitting on top of him. So in

  • this case, it's definitely not capitalized. Okay. Number six. The... that

  • earthquake caused the earth to shake. All right. Again,

  • it's really referring to just the land Even when there are earthquakes, the

  • entire world the entire planet is not shaking only a small part of it. You know,

  • in maybe one little area of one country, is the earth actually shaking. So it's

  • really just referring to land or surface or dirt here. So it's definitely not

  • capitalized there. Again like I said, you know , sometimes native speakers mess up

  • on this too. I recently covered an article that was actually written by a

  • native speaker and they had a line in it and they said I want to spend more time

  • with the earth and then they capitalized the earth which really seems strange.

  • Because if you capitalized it , it really means the planet. So you want to spend

  • more time with the planet ? But do you spend time away from the planet ? Do you

  • spend time on another planet ? So really it didn't make much sense. In this case, you

  • probably should have avoided the word earth here. The more proper way for her

  • to write that sentence probably would have been I want to spend more time in

  • nature. Because I know that's from reading the article that's probably what

  • she actually meant. But still she even a native speaker sometimes messes it up.

  • All right. And one more little point here. In phrases such as what on earth ... you

  • know, because we always say like what on earth are you doing ? You know we don't

  • capitalize the word earth and the four corners of the earth.

  • No. The word earth does not get capitalized. It's not really referring to

  • it as its proper name. So it doesn't get capitalized in these situations and

  • probably most other, if there if you can think of other

  • phrases with the word earth in it. Probably not. Okay. Anyway I hope you got

  • it. I hope it was clear. I hope it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

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英語講師ニックPレッスン(373) 地球を救う時と救われない時 (English Tutor Nick P Lesson (373) When to Capitilze Earth and When Not To)

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