Italics Hyphens
and Brackets
Italics Hyphens
and Brackets
Use italics (or an underline) for the titles of the following:
books (Brain Games)
comic strips (Pogo)
full-length plays (The Crucible)
long poems (The Aeneid)
magazines (Sports Illustrated)
movies (The Sound of Music)
newspapers (New York Times)
ships and planes (U.S.S. Constitution, The Spirit of St. Louis)
television and radio programs (Law and Order, All Things Considered)
works of art (Piet`a)
Use a hyphen
• to syllabicate words at the end of a line of typing or writing. Divide
words of two or more syllables ONLY between syllables. Do not
divide single-syllable words.
• to separate portions of certain compound nouns, such as father-in-law
and editor-in-chief.
• between two words that comprise a single adjective (only when these
words precede the noun that they are describing). Examples include
moth-infected clothing and rosy-cheeked elf.
Note: If a word that comprises a single adjective ends with -ly, a
hyphen is not necessary. (The rudely behaved spectator was spoken to
by the usher.)
Use brackets to enclose explanations, comments, or a correction within
quoted or parenthetical material.
The reporter told the audience, ‘‘The New York Mets’ first world
championship [1969] was memorable for all New Yorkers.’’
William Shakespeare (known as the Bard of Avon [1564–1616]) wrote
many comedies, histories, and tragedies.
the interjection
Active and passive voices
agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents
agreement involving prepositional phrases
Commas Part Five
Commas Part Four
Commas Part One
Commas Part Three
Commas Part Two
complete and simple predicates
complete and simple subjects
complex sentences
compound complex sentences
compound prepositions and the preposition adverb question
compound subject and compound predicate
compound subjects
part two
compound subjects part one
Confusing usage words part eight
Confusing usage words part five
Confusing usage words part four
Confusing usage words part one
Confusing usage words part seven
Confusing usage words part six
Confusing usage words part three
Confusing usage words part three 2
Confusing usage words part two
First Capitalization List
indefinite pronouns
Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case
introducing clauses
introducing phrases
Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
irregular verbs part one
irregular verbs part two
Italics Hyphens
and Brackets
Misplaced and dangling modifiers
More Apostrophe Situations
More subject verb agreement situations
Parentheses Ellipsis Marks and Dashes
Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
personal pronouns
pronouns and their antecedents
Quotation Marks
Part Three
Quotation Marks Part One
Quotation Marks Part Two
reflexive demonstrative and interrogative pronouns
Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
regular verb tenses
Second Capitalization List
sentences fragments and run on sentences
singular and plural nouns and pronouns
Sound a like words Part Four
Sound a like words Part Three
Sound a like words Part Two
Sound alike words part one
subject and verb agreement
subject complements predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives
subject verb agreement situations
the adjective
the adjective clause
the adjective phrase
the adverb
the adverb clause
the adverb phrase
The Apostrophe
the appositive
The Colon
The coordinating conjunction
the correlative conjunction
the direct object
the gerund and gerund phrase
the indirect object
the infinitive and infinitive phrase
The nominative case
the noun
the noun adjective pronoun question
the noun clause
the object of the preposition
the participle and participial phrase
The possessive case
The possessive case 2
The possessive case and pronouns
the preposition
the prepositional phrase
the pronoun
The Semicolon
the subordinating conjunction
the verb
The verb be
the verb phrase
Transitive and intransitive verbs
types of nouns
types of sentences by purpose
Using Capital Letters
what good writers do
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