AP Style Exercise #1 (A-D)

Please find and correct the AP style errors in the following sentences. The number in parentheses at the end of each sentence tells you how many errors are in that sentence. Be sure to consult your AP Stylebook for this exercise.

1) The new head of the journalism department, Dr. Deborah Dunwoody, recently bought a house at 6 Riverside Drive in San Mateo, a lovely city in the San Francisco Bay Area. (4)

2) "What kind of person would break into my apartment and steal my brand-new thongs?" she asked her friend. (3)

3) The instructor asked her students to read Chapter 6 in the text, and to pay close attention to the section on the Great Depression, which began in the late 1920s and continued through the '30s. (5)

4) Sarah Smith has not let partial blindness nor being wheelchair-bound stop her from living life to the fullest. She volunteers at a local senior center and enjoys going for strolls --she calls them "rolls"--with her friends. (3)