Grammar and Language Workbook

Underline words and phrases that should be italicized. If the sentence is correct as
written, write C in the blank.
Thomas Hardy’s last novel was Jude the Obscure.
1. The spacecraft Viking I was launched on August 20, 1975, and landed on Mars exactly
11 months later.
2. In art class we saw a slide of Brancusi’s fascinating abstract sculpture The Kiss.
3. Megan got most of the information for her report from a long Washington Post
newspaper article.
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4. Did you know that Charles Lindbergh’s plane, in which he flew from New York to Paris
in 1927, was called the Spirit of St. Louis?
5. We have been receiving sketchy reports on TV about the coup d’etat in Nigeria.
6. If you’re looking for an exciting train ride, I suggest you take the Bergen Express from
Oslo, Norway to Bergen on the North Sea.
7. The reporters took down the witness’s statement verbatim.
8. A submarine called the U.S.S. Nautilus was the first to be powered by atomic energy.
9. I agree that Martin Chuzzlewit’s plot is complicated, unbelievable, and manipulative,
but I loved the book anyway!
10. With my pasta the waitress brought me what the menu called ensalada verde, which
turned out to be a tossed green salad.
11. My brother checks the baseball statistics every week in The Sporting News.
12. The name they gave to their summer cottage was Tiocfaidh An Samhradh, Irish for
“summer will come.”
13. The story about the breakdown of the peace talks was originally published in the Los
Angeles Times.