ClearTips: Stunning sentences

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Italics or quotation marks can highlight a word or phrase used ironically or in an otherwise unconventional way.

Another form of diversification, bancassurance—tie-ups between banks and insurance companies—is still all the rage in Europe too.

Italics often signal a foreign word, until it is common in English.

We are very reserved, for we have been warned not to act "green," that the city people can spot a "sucker" a mile away.

Nevertheless the simple statement stands: we are in the war. The irony is that Hitler knows it-and most Americans don't.

Italics can stress a word, as if in speech.

The second comes from Vice-President Al Gore in 1992: "Scientists concluded—almost unanimously—that global warming is real and the time to act is now." (The italics are ours.)

Some writers use italics to highlight words in quoted material, adding a parenthetical—"(italics mine)"—or similar notation.

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