Directions: Indicate Whether Italics or Quotation Marks Are Appropriate for the Underlined

question 17

Multiple Choice

Directions: Indicate whether italics or quotation marks are appropriate for the underlined words and phrases in the following sentences. ​ After her twenty-eighth birthday, Marla resented being called cute .

• A)italics
• B)quotation marks
• C)neither

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Definitions:

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Sarbanes-Oxley Act

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