Worksheet 2: Advanced Italics & Underlining
Challenge yourself with exercises on using italics for foreign words, words as words, and scientific names. Click below to print or save as a PDF.
Worksheet 2: Advanced Italics & Underlining
Name: _________________________ Date: _________________________
1. Identifying Correct Usage
Add italics to the words that require it in the sentences below.
Original: The scientific name for the gray wolf is Canis lupus.
Original: What exactly does the term Schadenfreude mean?
Original: The ship was named the RMS Titanic.
Original: She ordered the pasta al dente.
2. Sentence Correction
Find the formatting error in each sentence and rewrite it correctly. The error may be a misuse of italics, underlining, or quotation marks.
Original: I read "The New York Times" every morning.
Original: Her favorite book is <u>A Tale of Two Cities</u>.
Original: The word "happy" is an adjective.
Original: The movie was, in a word, <em>amazing</em>.
3. Creative Writing
Write a short paragraph about a piece of art or music. In your paragraph, include the title of the work (formatted correctly) and at least one word used for emphasis (in italics).