Grammar Grade 11 | Ch. 11, Lesson 88 — Italics

Welcome back to Grammar Grade 11 — a complete, step-by-step walk through every fundamental rule of English grammar a high school junior needs to know. It's built for the SAT, but it's just as much about owning the grammar of everyday writing and speaking for life. The series moves in a clear chapter-and-lesson order, one lesson at a time. CHAPTER 11: PUNCTUATION — LESSON 88: ITALICS Italics (underlining, when you can't italicize) mark the titles of long, complete works — books, plays, movies, TV series, albums, newspapers, and magazines. Italics also set off the names of specific ships, trains, aircraft, and spacecraft, the names of court cases, foreign words not yet absorbed into English, and words, letters, or numbers referred to as themselves ("the word literally is overused"). Short works, by contrast, take quotation marks. What you'll learn • Long, complete works (books, movies, albums, papers) — italics • Names of ships, trains, aircraft, spacecraft • Court cases and unabsorbed foreign words • Words, letters, and numbers named as themselves • Plus 6 practice questions Quick checks to remember • Whole work — italics • A word talked about as a word — italics • Short work — quotation marks instead Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:16 Long works take italics 0:55 Also: names of vehicles & cases 1:35 Words & letters as themselves 2:20 Italics or quotation marks? 3:01 Practice Set 1 3:57 Practice Set 2 4:59 Recap: Italics for the big works New lessons follow the course order — subscribe to follow the whole series. #SAT #SATprep #Grammar #EnglishGrammar #Punctuation #Italics #HighSchool