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Anyone able to helps with capitals?

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Freddiefox · 06/05/2021 11:12

Getting myself a bit mixed up here.

But it I was writing

Greenacres Doctors would like to invite you... I would use capitals for both Greenacres and Doctors.

If I was writing

At the doctors all the chairs are pink and green. Would I then use a capital? Would doctors be a capital?

If I wrote:

At Greenacres Doctors all the chairs are pink and green. Is this correct?

Thanks

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FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 06/05/2021 11:39

Just say "at the surgery"?

TheOpportuneMoment · 06/05/2021 11:45

It depends on what the and correct name of the practice is. If the full name is Greenacre Doctors then you would capitalise both words whenever it was written out.

You wouldn't capitalise in your second example as you're not using the name of the practice. I wouldn't use 'the doctors' here though, it's colloquial. I'd say at the practice or at the surgery.

SmileyClare · 06/05/2021 11:52

Names of places, organisations are proper nouns and need capitals. At the doctor's doesn't. Doctor is a noun.

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peachgreen · 06/05/2021 11:55

It depends what the proper name of the surgery is. I imagine it's just Greenacres, in which case I would write:

Greenacres would like to invite you...
At the surgery all the chairs are pink and green.
At Greenacres all the chairs are pink and green.

SmileyClare · 06/05/2021 11:56

I agree, inside the surgery or at the practice sounds better. At the doctors is quite informal language.

Freddiefox · 06/05/2021 12:35

Thanks all, it’s not really a doctors, I was just using that as an example.

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