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Using correct grammar can help you become a more conscious writer — and it's good for your conscience, too! These words are often confused because they sound so similar. Although they both involve the mind, conscience and conscious have different grammatical and psychological meanings that writers should know.
Some languages, such as German, capitalize all of their nouns so you can easily find them in a sentence. But in English, it gets a little more complicated — you only capitalize proper nouns, not common nouns. So when do you capitalize nouns in English, and how can you tell if a noun is proper in the first place?