English Exercises: Punctuating Titles

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Punctuating Titles

When it comes to punctuating titles, you must either use underlining, use italics, or use quotation marks. You will only use italics-- the slanted writing-- when you type. However, you need to know that italics and underlining are used for the SAME TYPES OF TITLES!

They are both used with titles of LONG works of literature, drama, and other media.
If you write something that has been typed in italics, you MUST UNDERLINE it.
You will also need to use them with the names of trains, ships, airplanes, or space ships/rockets.

On the other hand, if a title is a short work of literature, drama, or other media, you must use QUOTATION MARKS around the title.

UNDERLINE

QUOTATION MARKS

Title of a novel Ex: Frankenstein	Title of a Short Story Ex: "The Open Window"
Title of a book Ex: Psychology and Consumer Science	Title of a Chapter Ex: "The Civil War"
Title of an Anthology or Collection of Works Ex: An Introduction to Literature	Title of an Essay Ex: "How to Write an Essay"
Title of Magazine or Scholarly Journal Ex: Invention Today	Title of an Article in a Magazine or Journal Ex: "The Invention of the Digital Camera"
Title of Newspaper Ex: The Athens Banner	Title of an Article in a Newspaper Ex: "Clarke County Raises Scores"
Title of Plays Ex: Othello
Title of an Epic or Long Poem Ex: The Odyssey	Title of a Short Poem Ex: "By the Seaside"
Title of a Film Ex: Edward Scissorhands	Title of a Chapter on a DVD Ex: "A Story about Snow"
Title of a Television Series Ex: Star Trek	Title of Individual Episode in a T.V. Series Ex: "The Trouble with Tribbles"
Title of an Album, CD, Record, or Cassette Ex: The Moody Blues Greatest Hits	Title of a Song Ex: "Tuesday Morning"

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Exercise: Choose the correct punctuation for each title.

1. Did you read the short story The Black Cat?

2. I watched the opera Madam Butterfly.

3. Do you still get the newspaper The Athens Banner?

4. We read about the ship the Titanic.

5. One episode of The Closer called The Wedding was so funny.

6. Justin Hayward was the lead singer on The War of the Worlds musical.

7. Judy Garland sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

8. Come watch the play Othello.

9. The movie Dream Girls is really good.

10. My magazine Archeology has not come.