Saturday, October 11, 2008

JOUR 61 – AP Style Exercise (S-Z), v. 2
15 errors / 15 points / 1 bonus point
Please identify and correct the AP style and other errors in the following sentences.


1) When he heard the building scheme for the new high school had been rejected, Bill pulled out his stationary; wrote a letter of protest. (2)
2) Ben really knows his scriptures, but he knows little about The Talmoud or The Shariah. (3)
3) Her home in upstate New York is surprisingly ultramodern and rather unique for its middle class neighborhood. (4)
4) To celebrate Veterans Day, the anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, troupes of former soldiers will march down Main Street, carrying U.S. flags. (3)
5) Word-of- mouth has it that Ellen will windup with the only “A” in the class. (2)
6) When Sara spotted the Louis L’Amour paperback, she asked who’s book it was. She couldn’t believe it was John's. After all, nobody reads westerns anymore. She had no idea he was such a weird-o. (3)

BONUS:

· The man was arrested for brandishing a 12-gauge shotgun outside his home. (1)

1 comment:

camccune said...

1) Look up "plan" and "stationary"
2) Don't capitalize "The" - look up each holy book
3) Unique means one of a kind, so there’s no such thing as “rather unique.” middle-class neighborhood
4) troupes is wrong
5) wind up (verb)
6) who's is wrong, westerns is wrong, weird-o is wrong
Bonus: got it!

8+1(bonus)=9/20
You need to make friends with your AP Stylebook.