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You must read each slide, and complete any questions on the slide, in sequence.
Exercise P10-1
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Indicate in the box following each sentence which word or phrase should be changed to italic or should not be italic. If a sentence is correct, write “correct” in the box.
Click Submit after each question to see feedback and to record your answer. After you have finished every question, your answers will be submitted to your instructor’s gradebook. You may review your answers by returning to the exercise at any time. (An exercise reports to the gradebook only if your instructor has assigned it.)
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Howard Hughes commissioned the Spruce Goose, a beautifully built but thoroughly impractical wooden aircraft.
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Change to italics: Spruce Goose
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The old man screamed his anger, shouting to all of us, “I will not leave my money to you worthless layabouts!”
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Answer: Correct
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I learned the Latin term ad infinitum from an old nursery rhyme about fleas: “Great fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite ’em, / Little fleas have lesser fleas and so on ad infinitum.”
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Change to italics: ad infinitum (in both places)
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Cinema audiences once gasped at hearing the word damn in Gone with the Wind.
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Change to italics: damn, Gone with the Wind
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Neve Campbell’s lifelong interest in ballet inspired her involvement in the film “The Company,” which portrays a season with the Joffrey Ballet.
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Change to italics and remove quotation marks: The Company