In title case, which word should not be capitalized in "The Tale of Two Cities"?

• A. The
• B. Tale
• C. of
• D. Cities

Answer: (C)

In title case, you capitalize the main words—nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs—while short function words like articles, conjunctions, and prepositions are kept in lowercase. In The Tale of Two Cities, the first word The is capitalized as the starting word, Tale and Cities are major words and thus capitalized, and Two is a number used as an adjective, so it’s capitalized too. The small preposition of is the exception and stays lowercase in standard title case. So the word that should not be capitalized is of.