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In the sentence (just a sentence to be provided an example, I made it up) ''I think the second World War was more devastating than World War I'' so I checked capitalization rules on Grammarly and I didn't find any reason to capitalize ''s'' of ''second''. However, the application (grammarly) itself finds no mistake when I capitalize ''s'' of ''second'' Is there a grammar rule that regulates this ? Thank you.

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    Rule 8: Specific periods, eras, and historical events that have proper names should be capitalized. Second is a part of the proper name as World or War is. Similarly, we say "World War One" – Andrew Tobilko Feb 11 '22 at 17:35
  • Yes to what @AndrewTobilko said. You could also write, "I think the second world war was more devastating than the first" (although people usually use proper nouns to refer to those wars). – MarcInManhattan Feb 11 '22 at 21:10
  • Don't say thanks in the question, it only increases noise. See: Expected Behavior –  Jul 17 '22 at 08:02

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Typically we consider the name of the war to be "Second World War". The word "Second" is part of the name, and so is capitalised as a proper noun.

James K
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