ENG IIA Unit 4: Italics and Quotations IN CLASS
Learning Target 1 PRACTICE
LEARNING TARGET 1:
Use italics (underlining) for titles of books, periodicals, newspapers, works of art (pictures, television
programs, statues, and other creative works), planes, ships, etc.
Use italics (underlining) for words and letters 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.
The word ideal means the ability to reproduce exactly whatever recorded signals are fed have
led to many innovative designs.
2.
While reading a history book called The Rise of Nazi Germany, I had to use my dictionary to fine
the definitions of the following terms: Anschluss, Luftwaffe, and Wehrmacht.
3.
There was an interesting article in Omni about Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and
the similarities between the flight in that movie and our own manned space flights; the article
also reviewed Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey Two.
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RCSHS – ENG IIA -KMH
taken from Warriner’s English and Composition, Fifth Course
Exercise 2, page 631