Saturday, September 20, 2008

AP Style Exercise #2 (E-H)

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 everyday practice, not the exception. (4)
  2. As the two boys argued over who should get the last piece of pizza, both seemed equally hungry. Clearly, they had forgotten their earlier decision to forgo having seconds. (2)
  3. He suspected that his neighbor was selling drugs, so he called the FBI. His neighbor, however, cried foul at the accusation. (2)
  4. She grew up on the Great Plains, near Alliance, NE, where the winters are long and harsh, and the living is hand-to-mouth. (3)
  5. Her car was sideswiped by a hit-and-run driver on Route 1A this morning. She wasn't really injured, but the impact sent the contents of her purse helter-skelter. (4)

1 comment:

camccune said...

Guess I missed this one last week.

Neb., not NE
hand to mouth (only use hyphens when it's a compound adjective)

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