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Police Officer, Capitals or not in a sentence?



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Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:31 am
opaquewillow says...



If I'm writing a sentence such as "I saw the Police Officer walking in the park" am I supposed to capitalize the words Police Officer? As I haven't mentioned the name it's like that is his name, like as you'd say the Shop Keeper. I'm using his title as his name so does that mean I capitalize it?

However in a sentence like "Being a police officer is dangerous" I wouldn't as I'm not using it as a name?

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Mon Mar 18, 2013 1:49 pm
Kale says...



You wouldn't capitalize police officer (or shopkeeper) as it's not a specific, official title. There are too many people who are police officers for the title to be specific, and figuring out how many people share that job title at a time is a good rule of thumb to use when figuring out if you should capitalize a job title or not.
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Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:46 am
Animal says...



As Kyllorac already marked out, it does not need to be capitalized. Remember that it is a common noun.
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