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”

a b c or d

Answer 1

a) make “Aunt” lowercase

In this sentence, "aunt" should not be capitalized because it is not being used as a proper noun (i.e., a name). Instead, it is being used as a common noun. Therefore, the correct change is to make “Aunt” lowercase.