Ravings of a Textual Deviant

Grammar Death Match - Italics vs. Quotation Marks

Indicate whether the underlined text should be in italics or in quotation marks.

1. Smith wasn’t the only guilty party; it’s true.

2. The word the is an article.

3. There was a performance of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy on NPR’s Performance Today last night.

4. Arthur C. Clarke’s short story, The Sentinel, is a precursor to his novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

5. Have you ever heard David Bowie’s Space Oddity?

6. The Queen Mary sailed last night.

7. A splendid coq au vin was served

8. Freudian psychology is based on the ego, the super-ego, and the id.

9. I just read a great article in Wireless World, Extra-Terrestrial Relays.

10. This can’t be happening, thought Mary.

11. A common rat species is the Black Rat, Rattus rattus.

12. The speed of light, c, is approximately equal to 3.00×10⁸ m s^-1.

13. That sounds like the Ode to Joy played backwards, thought Mary.

14. The first chapter of 3001: The Final Odyssey is Comet Cowboy.

15. A year after Katrina, Gulf Coast residents ask Where’s the Money?

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