{"id":72944,"date":"2019-11-29T08:19:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T08:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72944"},"modified":"2019-11-29T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T08:19:11","slug":"italicization-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/italicization-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Italicization Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>talicize the following (or underline if writing by hand or using a typewriter):<\/p>\n<p>The titles of books, plays, book-length poems, magazines, and newspapers:<\/p>\n<p><em>War and Peace <\/em><br \/>\n<em>TIME magazine <\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Call of the Wild<\/em><br \/>\n<em>National Geographic <\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Times of India<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The titles of movies and radio and television programs:<\/p>\n<p><em>Finding Nemo <\/em><br \/>\n<em>War of the Worlds<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Law &amp; Order <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Car Talk <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tom and Jerry<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Big Brother<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The titles of works of art, including paintings, sculptures, and major musical compositions:<\/p>\n<p><em>Mona Lisa (painting) <\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Thinker (sculpture) <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Swan Lake (ballet) <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Porgy and Bess (opera)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do not italicize musical compositions named by number or key: Symphony No. 4; Quartet in E minor.<\/p>\n<p>Words, letters, and numbers used as such:<\/p>\n<p>How do you spell <em>please<\/em>?<br \/>\nDoes your name end with<em> a c or a k<\/em>?<br \/>\nThe <em>6<\/em> looked like a <em>0<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign words and phrases that have not been assimilated into English:<\/p>\n<p>Alex&#8217;s <em>Weltanschauung<\/em> was gloomy.<br \/>\nAlice made a <em>tarte au citron<\/em> for dessert.<\/p>\n<p>Words and phrases that are being emphasized:<\/p>\n<p>Paris was the place to be in the <em>&#8217;20s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The names of ships, aircraft, and space vehicles:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Titanic<\/em><br \/>\n<em>USS Maine <\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Spirit of St. Louis <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Space shuttle Challenger<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>talicize the following (or underline if writing by hand or using a typewriter): The titles of books, plays, book-length poems, magazines, and newspapers: War and Peace TIME magazine The Call of the Wild National&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[1919,1920],"class_list":["post-72944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-italicization","tag-when-to-italicize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72945,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72944\/revisions\/72945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}