The following sentence contains a capitalization error. Which change would you make to correct the sentence?

Question

Martin wanted to visit his Aunt in St. Louis during the month of July, but he wound up going later in the fall.

make “Aunt” lowercase

make “July” lowercase

make “St. Louis” lowercase

capitalize “fall”

Answer 1

The correct change to make in the sentence is to make "aunt" lowercase. The word "aunt" should only be capitalized when it is used as part of a proper noun or directly preceding the person's name, such as "Aunt Sarah."

So the corrected sentence should be:

Martin wanted to visit his aunt in St. Louis during the month of July, but he wound up going later in the fall.