Asked by Makayla
What should be applied to the names of continents?
italics
parentheses
apostrophe
quotation marks
capitalization
hyphen
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Capitalization.
Continent names are proper nouns and should be capitalized (Asia, Africa, Europe, etc.). They are not normally italicized, put in parentheses or quotation marks, or given an apostrophe. A hyphen is only used when the continent name appears in a compound form (e.g., Asia-Pacific).
Continent names are proper nouns and should be capitalized (Asia, Africa, Europe, etc.). They are not normally italicized, put in parentheses or quotation marks, or given an apostrophe. A hyphen is only used when the continent name appears in a compound form (e.g., Asia-Pacific).
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