G1 Ellipses & Italics

​Ellipses and Italics

G1 Unit 1 Grammar​

Ellipses

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• Television Series: Stranger Things

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• Epic (long) Poems: Beowulf

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• Long Musical Compositions: Fantasia

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• Works of Art: Mona Lisa

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• Set off foreign words ​or uncommon phrases: Bon voyage!

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• Titles of Books: The Giver

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• Newspapers & Magazines: The Braidwood Journal SCOPE Magazie

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• Titles of Plays: The Diary of Anne Frank

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• Movies: ​Back to the Future

​Using Italics, underlining, or underscoring

Multiple Choice

Identify the words that should be italicized in the sentence.

The epic poem The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri gives the author's view of life after death.

• epic poem

• The Divine Comedy

• Dante Alighieri

• life after death

Multiple Choice

Identify the words that should be italicized in the sentence.

The TV comedy My Life and Times is doing well with viewers aged 25 to 49.

• TV comedy

• My Life and Times

• viewers

• aged 25 to 49

Multiple Choice

Identify the words that should be italicized in the sentence.

What exactly does the word lexicon mean?

• exactly

• word

• lexicon

• mean

Multiple Choice

Identify the words that should be italicized in the sentence.

Acting has become Judith's raison d'etre, or reason for being.

• Judith's

• raison

• raison d'etre

• reason for being

Multiple Choice

Identify the words that should be italicized in the sentence.

The funniest, most heart-warming play I have ever seen is Harvey.

• funniest

• heart-warming

• ever

• Harvey

​Read the passage and compare to the quotes.

The people came out of their houses and smelled the hot stinging air and covered their noses from it. And the children came out of the houses​, but they did not run or shout as they would have done after a rain.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Rath​

Multiple Choice

Identify the ellipses errors. If there are no errors, choose CORRECT.

"The people....smelled the hot singing air and covered their noses from it. And the children came out of the houses, but they did not run or shout as they would have done after a rain."

• too few ellipses points

• too many ellipses points

• did not omit words

• CORRECT

Multiple Choice

Identify the ellipses errors. If there are no errors, choose CORRECT.

"The people...smelled the hot singing air and covered their noses from it. And the children came out of the houses, but they did not run or shout as they would have done after a rain."

• too few ellipses points

• too many ellipses points

• did not omit words

• CORRECT

Multiple Select

Identify the ellipses errors. If there are no errors, choose CORRECT.

"The people..smelled the hot singing air and covered their noses from it... And the children came out of the houses, but they did not run or shout..."

• too few ellipses points

• too many ellipses points

• did not omit words

• CORRECT