LEARNING TARGET 1:
Use underlining (italics) for titles of books, plays, films, periodicals, works of art, long musical compositions, television programs, book length poems, ships, and so on.
Use underlining (italics) for words, letters, and figures referred to as such and for foreign words.
DIRECTIONS:
Underline all the words and word groups in the following sentences that should be italicized.
1.
Did you know that the B Cecil B. deMille stands for Blount?
2.
The first full-length movie cartoon, Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, used two million drawings.
3.
Among the necessities of life brought by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower were apple seeds.
4.
James Earle Fraser, famous for his painting End of Trail, designed our Indian-head nickel.
5.
Teddy Roosevelt, an avid reader, read Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire while on a trip in the jungles of Brazil.
1 RCSHS – ENG IIA - KMH taken from Warriner’s English Composition and Grammar, Fourth Course,
Exercise 1, pg. 599-600.