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Underline and italics are used for emphasis. By now you’ve had some lessons on the use of underlining and using italics. In middle school you will begin to have far more writing opportunities than ever before, including writing book reports.
As there are many basic rules to writing, this quiz will revisit the rules surrounding when to underline and when to use italics, both of which are forms of punctuations to show emphasis when writing. They can be interchanged depending upon what is a writer’s preference. However, these too follow some basic rules as follows:
1. When naming a long title to a written piece of work such as a book, a magazine, a movie, a newspaper, a song, a play or a TV show, you can italicize, underline or even use quotation marks (“”) to offset the title. For example:
The Diary of Anne Frank
or
The Diary of Anne Frank
or
“The Diary of Anne Frank”
To not use at least one of these forms of offsetting the title would be an incorrect writing format.
2. When using foreign words and phrases. Foreign words and phrases should always be either underlined or in italics. For example:
He had a sudden experience of déjà vu!
or
He had a sudden experience of déjà vu!
3. Italicize onomatopoeia words (sound words). For example:
Aah. It felt so good to take my shoes off!
For each sentence that follows, determine which word or group of words needs to be underlined or italicized or does the sentence need to be left alone.