Italics and Quotation Marks: FORMATIVE
Learning Target 1 2
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. The submarine Seaview was the ship commanded by Admiral Nelson in Voyage to the
bottom of the Sea, an old TV program.
2. Daktari is Swahili for the English word doctor.
3. Our first space shuttle was supposed to be named Constitution, but President Ford, who
received 100,000 letters from Star Trek fans, changed the name to Enterprise.
4. Richard Sears met Alvah Roebuck through an ad in the Chicago Daily News.
5. The three M’s in 3M Company stand for Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing.
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RCSHS – ENG IIA - KMH
taken from Warriner’s English Composition and Grammar, Fourth Course,
Exercise 1, pg. 599-600.