Quiz

Correct the following sentences for AP style violations. You will need to consult the AP style resources provided in our Course Resources. Every sentence contains at least two AP style errors.

Do not simply delete errors; do not simply rewrite sentences to eliminate problem words or phrases. Correct the errors. For example, don’t do this:

Original:

The sermon should start at about 10:00 AM, he said.

Correction:

The sermon should start soon, he said.

And please submit your answers as complete sentences, like this:

Original:

The sermon should start at about 10:00 AM, he said.

Correction:

The sermon should start at about 10 a.m., he said.

(You’ll find these corrections in the numbers and time rules in our course AP stylebook.)

Save your work as a PC Word (.doc or .docx) or rich text formatted (.rtf) file (not a text, .odt or PDF file!), and attach it to the appropriate assignment folder in our classroom. Please DO NOT post your completed in any classroom discussion area as that will invalidate the assessment for everyone. You will get a grade of “zero” while the rest of the class will have to take another version of this quiz. Please do not e-mail the quiz to me. That’s simply too unreliable a way to send graded work. In order for you to receive feedback, your quiz should be posted in Assignments.

Also, please do not use the comments, strike-out or color highlighting features on your word processor to correct the sentences as your changes may not translate in the transfer and they will make it difficult for me to provide you with feedback on your quiz. 

1.    The eight-year-old girl went to the store carrying five dollars to buy a coke, Police said.

2.    At 12 noon yesterday, the Priest said mass in Baltimore, Maryland, before a crowd of five hundred people.

3.    Forecasters said the temperatures in western Maryland will fall from 0 to -15 by 12 midnight tomorrow evening.

4.    The coach said the player is 6’, 0” tall, weighs 178 lbs. and can run 1 mile in under 4 minutes.

5.    Early in the 20^th century the President of the U.S. signed legislation to create the first national park in Wyo.

6.    Ten persons, including Mrs. Margaret Smith, showed up at the pet store at Twenty north High Street to protest.

7.    The girl, age 18, said she loves oreos and donuts, but she vowed to start her diet at 12 midnight on January 1.

8.    The realtor said he put $0.25 cents in the parking meter on Martin Luther King Blvd. before he attended a meeting at 8:45 a.m. yesterday morning.

9.    The student said in his FaceBook post that he will receive a B.A. in Journalism from a school in Mass. and then plans to join the staff of Time Magazine.

10.  Governor Larry Hogan, a member of the republican party, promised to overturn the environmental policies of his predecessor, who was a democrat.

11.  The storm from the Midwest moved Eastward on Wed., dumping up to 10” of snow and sending temperatures into the twenties.

12.  The baby sitter in Adelphi, Md., said she saves about 50% of her earnings and working towards buying a car that will cost between $7 and $10,000 dollars.

13.  Mr. Michael Alexander, a veteran of the United States Navy who now lives in the southwest, said he hoped he would win the pulitizer prize for his book on the Iraq War.

14.  The presidential aid spoke at the Capital and said the odds are two to one that congress will pass the legislation the President proposed.

15.  Though he wanted to live in France, Prof. Charles Lemonwood said he didn’t want to leave Md. where he taught Journalism.