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  | Italics LEARN TO USE ITALICS Italic style uses letters that slant upward and to the right. If you are not using a typewriter or computer that makes italics, underline words that would appear in italics. Use italics to 1. Emphasize a word or phrase. The speaker said, "The U.S. owes its lenders three trillion dollars. Now that's a deficit." 2. Show that a word or letter is being used as a word or letter. The word separate contains two e's and two a's. 3. Write the title of a book, magazine, play, film, television show, long poem, or newspaper. The Stranger (novel) |
