italics: letters and words cited

Italicize letters and words that you are citing:

  • Delete the second and from line 15.
  • There is only one s in disappoint.

Quotation marks, boldface type or underlining may also be used for this purpose, instead of italics.

For more information on using of quotation marks with words being cited, see quotation marks: reference to words as such.

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