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Should you include the word "the" inside a quoted/emphasized words? [closed]
I'm having a bit of trouble regarding whether to include the word "the" inside a quoted words.
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None was known when the Great Cataclysm had happened on the other hand.
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When italicizing a noun to emphasize, italicize the article or not?
When I want to emphasize a noun by italicizing, do I need to italicize the article of the noun or not? For example, is this correct?
"Is it an apple?"
"No, it is an orange."
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Use of italics and BrE single quotation marks
I'd like to know when to use italics and when to use single quotation marks should be used. For example:
The word he was looking for was ‘abjuration’.
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The word he was looking for was ...
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Scientific Nomenclature: italics or roman in an italic environment
Scientific Nomenclature says that:
Italics are used for bacterial and viral taxa at the level of family
and below. All bacterial and many viral genes are italicized. Serovars
of Salmonella ...
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Why is "their" italicized? [closed]
I'm having trouble understanding this sentence by Noam Chomsky. Noam published many English-related scientific papers in his professional career and I have no doubt that this italicization is ...
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Whence “emphasis mine”?
Writers often highlight part of a quotation to emphasize the point they're making. They use a variety of phrases to indicate that the emphasis did not appear in the original text. In order of current ...
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