Please identify and correct the AP style errors in the following sentences. Post the corrected sentences on your blog.
- 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)
- 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)
- He suspected that his neighbor was selling drugs, so he called the FBI. His neighbor, however, cried foul at the accusation. (2)
- 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)
- 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:
Guess I missed this one last week.
Neb., not NE
hand to mouth (only use hyphens when it's a compound adjective)
13/15
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