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# capitalizationContext

The capitalization context to use when formatting the relative dates.

```
var capitalizationContext: FormatStyleCapitalizationContext
```

## Discussion

Setting the capitalization context to [`beginningOfSentence`](/documentation/Foundation/FormatStyleCapitalizationContext/beginningOfSentence) sets the first word of the relative date string to upper-case. A capitalization context set to [`middleOfSentence`](/documentation/Foundation/FormatStyleCapitalizationContext/middleOfSentence) keeps all words in the string lower-cased.

If you set this property to `nil`, the format style resets to using `unknown`.

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