While writing the names of your compounds, DO NOT use capitals. - First, determine id the compounds is ionic or covalent - Second, if ionic determine if the metal ion forms more than one ion. If so, use ro numerals after the name of the metal. If not, you will not use the roman numera name of the metal followed by the name of the anion. - If the compound is covalent, you need to specify the number of each element in compound using Greek prefixes. The only exception is not to use mono for the element