Grammar - Punctuating Titles

Question 1

Rule #1 - Underline & Italization (3-4)

Answer 1

1. LONG Work get LONG Lines (underline)
2. A writer may italicize the title of a long work instead of underlining it.
3. Examples:
   a. Books
   b. Dictionaries/Encyclopedias
   c. Newspapers/Magazines
   d. Plays

Question 2

Rule #2 - Quotation Marks (5)

Answer 2

1. SHORT Works get SHORT Lines (Quotation Marks)

Examples:
a. Poems
b. Short Stories
c. Fairy Tales/Fables/Myths/Legends
d. Chapters
e. Articles

Question 3

Rule #3 - Underline & Quotation Marks in a Sentence

Answer 3

Rule #3 - Never underline and use quotation marks on the same title! Either underline the title OR put quotation marks around it.

Question 4

Rule #4 - Capitalization (4)

Answer 4

Rule #4:

1. ALWAYS capitalize the FIRST word and the LAST word in a title
2. DON’T Capitalize the THREE ARTICLES

    a          an         the 

3. DON’T capitalize short PREPOSITIONS or CONJUNCTIONS

     on       in       and      of       or      at    but      so   by   for

4. CAPITALIZE ALL VERBS

   may    can   will    must 
   		 
         am    is     are      was     were    be      do      did      has     had