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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
quote or italicize
Hi,
Let us say these are instructions to an instructional game. Please tell me if you would put no. 1 in quotation marks and italicize no. 2, 3, and 4. Why? I understand the reason for no. 1, I think, but what is the reason for italicizing the rest? To emphasize the words? Are they being emphasized? I would have little trouble if it had been "Put you marker here" with the word "Put" for emphasis. I think I have seen these kinds of things in bold as in "Press the Begin Here button to start it".
1.Let's play the "What" game.
2. Put your marker on Begin Here.
3. When you land on a Pick up a card square, read it aloud.
4. When you land on a Name two ... square, name two of what is asked.
Let us say these are instructions to an instructional game. Please tell me if you would put no. 1 in quotation marks and italicize no. 2, 3, and 4. Why? I understand the reason for no. 1, I think, but what is the reason for italicizing the rest? To emphasize the words? Are they being emphasized? I would have little trouble if it had been "Put you marker here" with the word "Put" for emphasis. I think I have seen these kinds of things in bold as in "Press the Begin Here button to start it".
1.Let's play the "What" game.
2. Put your marker on Begin Here.
3. When you land on a Pick up a card square, read it aloud.
4. When you land on a Name two ... square, name two of what is asked.
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You can either italicize or place in quotation marks both the game name and the square names.
- You can either italicize or place in quotation marks both the game name and the square names.
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You can either italicize or place in quotation marks both the game name and the square names.
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You can either italicize or place in quotation marks both the game name and the square names.
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Why? The purpose is to make the instructions as easy to read and understand as possible. .
Each game has its own unique jargon and vocabulary which needs to be highlighted in some way to avoid confusion with the text of the instructions.
In English, there are several ways to highlight a jargon word or phrase: change in appearance of the letters (color, bold face, italics, font t
Each game has its own unique jargon and vocabulary which needs to be highlighted in some way to avoid confusion with the text of the instructions.
In English, there are several ways to highlight a jargon word or phrase: change in appearance of the letters (color, bold face, italics, font t
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I am sorry for the duplicate posts. The web site gave me errors when I posted, and now will not let me delete the duplications.
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Hi, AlpheccaStars.
No prob, I've just deleted the posts you mentioned. When the editing time expires, you can always contact a mod to have your posts removed.
Thank you for your recent contributions to the forums!
Hi, AlpheccaStars.
No prob, I've just deleted the posts you mentioned. When the editing time expires, you can always contact a mod to have your posts removed.
Thank you for your recent contributions to the forums!
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[still off topic]
I have had lots of error pages returned after a post today.
I cleared all my cookies as the error page suggested, closed the browser, and restarted. Maybe that will help.
(didn't help, so I will restart Windows....]
I have had lots of error pages returned after a post today.
I cleared all my cookies as the error page suggested, closed the browser, and restarted. Maybe that will help.
(didn't help, so I will restart Windows....]
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