AP Stylebook Exercises

3.5 Using the Stylebook 3

1. The United States is sometimes not the best market for U.S. products.

2. Upward

British Labor Party

Riverside Avenue

Cupfuls

Eyeing

3. The Republican differed with the Democrat many times during the debate.

4. Drs. John Smith and Mary Wilson performed the operations.

5. Goodwill

USS Eisenhower

Cigarette

mid-America

6. He said he was neither a communist nor a member of the Communist Party.

7. After her surgery she had to wear a pacemaker.

8. “What a hare-brained scheme!” she exclaimed.

9. preempt, speedup, 55 mph, hooky

10. The underworld or Mafia was responsible for the murder.

3.6

1. The annual rutabaga eating contest was canceled because of adverse weather.

2. It’s not all right to drink an excess of beer before going to the football game.

3. As Einstein said, all knowledge is relative.

4. The state Capitol of Louisiana is located at 3722 Dagwood Road.

5. The mayor refused to go along with the city council vote. “I discent.” He stated.

6. Madonna certainly has a flair for fashion. She always wears expensive outfits.

7. The bomb destroyed sen. Kitsmoot’s bird cage.

8. My bright-green Chevrolet, which is in the garage, needs a new transmission.

9. Knopke’s hilarious joke elicited laughter from the Midville City Council.

10. Jones laid on the floor waiting for the job interview to begin.

11. Horowitz an ethics major, vowed never to compromise his principles.

12. At the end of the book report Haynes cited the World Book as a source.

3.7

1. The 25-year-old man wept as he left Hattiesburg Mississippi.

2. Nov. 10 will mark our anniversary.

3. Do not park the car on Rodeo Drive instead, park it at twelve Davies St.

4. They spent $130 to buy a new set of nose rings.

5. Smoots moved to the North because the people there are so nice.

6. At seven p.m., the rodeo will begin in the Town Square.

7. The terrorists blew up their home yesterday at 123 Melrose St.

8. Twenty-two seamstresses were needed to mend the prom dresses.

9. About 5% of the professors have lost their hair.

10. After 2 feet of snow fell at his home in Columbus Ohio, Jones decided to leave.

11. Mrs. Smith bet $50 that her brother weighed more than a 1964 Chevrolet.

12. John Smith the governor of California set his trailer on fire Sept. 1.

13. A fire started at 3325 McDonald Drive when an oven full of rutabagas exploded.

14. During the 1970s, everyone wore bell-bottom blue jeans to church.