Markers also found candidates used commas and capital letters randomly and were uncertain about the correct use of tenses, apostrophes and paragraphs.

BBC: Scottish exam markers find errors in basic English

And second, there is the widespread view that since capital letters are used solely to distinguish proper nouns - names or titles - it is not appropriate to use one for the network that links our computers together or the publishing system that runs on top of it.

BBC: Computer user