Lesson 399

Mechanics - Punctuation - Italics & Underlining

Italicize titles of books; of long plays and long poems; of periodicals, newspapers, and magazines.

Material that is italicized in print or by computer is underlined in typewritten or hand written work.

 
 
 

Instructions: Italicize those words which need italics in these sentences.

1. At the doctor's office I read from two magazines, Time and Newsweek.

2. I take two daily newspapers, the Daily Herald and the Deseret News.

3. I love Dickens's story of the French Revolution A Tale of Two Cities.

4. When in San Francisco, I saw the famous play Les Miserables.

5. Have you read the long poem The Idylls of the King?