Ebola scare has again resurfaced globally. Our prayer is that it will not find its ugly way to Nigeria this time around, knowing how tragic and disruptive it was in 2014. While one further prays that the scourge be defeated soon where it is ravaging the polity, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it has found a place in our outline today based on a peculiar grammatical feature it harbours. Unlike many other common nouns, ‘Ebola’ is a word that should always begin with a capital letter.
This means that whether it starts a clause/sentence or it is in the middle or at the end, whether it is a noun or an adjective, it should always begin with the upper case:
Ebola is a contagious disease.
He said Ebola was a contagious disease.
About 12 years ago, he survived Ebola.
The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has put the
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