Italics and Quotation Marks: SUMMATIVE
Learning Target 1
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. Jason names his ship Argo because Argus had built it.
2. Mr. Butler likes to use foreign words and phrases such as modus operandi, alors, and au
revoir.
3. Have you read the novel Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey?
4. When I spelled occurrence with one r, I was eliminated from the spelling contest.
5. The Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas The Mikado and the Puccini opera Madame
Butterfly are both set in Japan.
6. Shani asked if she could borrow my copy of Sports Illustrated.
7. Mrs. Hopkins said that if she had to describe me in one word, the word would be
loquacious.
8. My mother, who grew up in Chicago, still subscribes to the Chicago Tribune.
9. My favorite painting is Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Iris; my favorite sculpture is Constantin
Brancusi’s Bird in Space.
10. My parents grew up with a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which has been replaced
now by the inaccurate knowledge of the internet’s Wikipedia.
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RCSHS- ENG IIA - KMH
taken from Warriner’s English Composition and Grammar, Third Course
Exercise 1, pg. 641-642.