I’m trying to solve a noun & article problem.
Say I’ve got a kid called John. Until you know his name through conversation, I make his printed name ‘the big boy.’
How can I manage indefinite articles and capitalisation with this arrangement?
For instance - If I’ve got code which says ‘[The noun] can’t hear you from over there.’ – if you don’t know the kid yet, it says ‘the big boy can’t hear you from over there.’ (sic)
I guess because I’m not using an indefinite article with the character, the ‘the’ needs to be attached, but this also messes up capitalisation. Yet there is no circumstance where I don’t want the words ‘big boy’ to be preceded by ‘the’. It’s just that I want the ‘the’ to be uppercase when it starts sentences.