JOUR 61 – AP Style Exercise #2 (E-H)
(15 points)

Please identify and correct the AP style errors in the following sentences. Post the corrected sentences on your blog.

1) To ensure the accuracy of the news story, Sarah Jones checked with her source. For Jones, this is an every day practice; not the exception. (4)
2) As the two boys argued, over who should get the last piece of pizza, both seemed equally as hungry. Clearly, they had forgotten their earlier decision to forego having seconds. (2)
3) He suspected his neighbor was selling drugs so he called the F.B.I. His neighbor, however, cried fowl at the accusation. (2)
4) She grew up on the Great Plains near Alliance, Neb., where the winters are long and harsh and the living is hand-to-mouth. (3)
5) Her car was side-swiped by a hit and run driver on Route 1-A this morning. She wasn't really injured but the impact sent the contents of her purse helter-skelter. (4)