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Italics and Quotations with special words - Exercise
Each sentence below contains one or more titles. Indicate whether each title should be written in italics or put inside quotation marks by clicking the appropriate button after each phrase. When you are finished, click on the "Check My Work" button at the bottom of the page.

1. Why do men think that commitment(   ) is a scary word?

2. I often heard the greeting bonjour (   ) while walking down the streets of Paris.

3. My two-year-old just learned how to drive (   )  his miniature plastic truck.

4. In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem (   )  is a relation in  geometry among the three sides of a right triangle.

5. The word rock(   ) has more than one meaning.

6. His modus operandi (   ) is chronic lateness to every appointment.

7. Current rap artists are often known by the amount of bling (   )they flash in their pictures.

8. Black mayonnaise (   ) is now the accepted term for sludge covering the bottom of a harbor.

9. Uncle Jack's profession
 (   ) of laziness has steadily grown since he was laid off at the plant.

10. Interferential Stimulation (   ), used for pain management in physical therapy sessions, has a 90% success rate.

             

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Margaret L. Benner
benner@towson.edu

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