Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Grammar exercises 9 & 10.
Using quotation marks and italics


Exercise 9: Punctuating Titles.  Add quotation marks or underlining for italics where needed.


  1. Nanook of the North (film)
  2. New York Times (newspaper)
  3. The Eternal Nomad (short poem)
  4. The Old Man and the Sea (book)
  5. Dream-Children (essay)
  6. Star Trek (television)
  7. The Skin of Our Teeth (play)
  8. Scientific American (magazine)
  9. The Coldest Land (magazine article)
  10. To Build a Fire (short story)


Exercise 10:  Using quotation Marks and Italics.  Add quotation marks and other punctuation marks and underlining for italics where needed.

  1. Tom asked Have you read the assignment in our textbook
  2. Bo shouted What an interesting article on  nomads that was
  3. I didn’t know said Barry that some nomads live in northern Europe
  4. Yes said Ms. Rosa Lapland lies in Russia, Finland, Sweden, and Norway
  5. Did Ms. Rosa say the people of Lapland are called Lapps
  6. Barry asked Have you read the article on Lapps in National Geographic
  7. No I answered but I read about them in another magazine
  8. The Lapps have two seasons said Tom day and night.
  9. Does the night season really last nine months asked Barry
  10. The book The Far North says Lapland has only six weeks of warm weather a year
  11. Did the book say Only mosses and a few trees grow in Lapland
  12. Why are the Lapps considered nomads asked Matt
  13. Bonnie answered The people live by hunting and fishing
  14. During the summer season I said they lay in supplies for the winter

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