Michael Scott

Name ______________________________________________________________________________________

Style Exercise 4

The sample story below contains grammar, spelling, punctuation and style errors. As you read, correct each error,
following the guidelines in the AP Stylebook. Some lines of the story have more than one error, while others do not
have any errors. If a line does not contain an error, write correct on the adjacent answer blank.

accommodate is spelled wrong

In order to accomodate as many 1. ___________________________________________________
Lowercase fall
students as possible, this Fall, the 2. ___________________________________________________
lowercase
voting for Homecoming court has 3. ___________________________________________________
correct
been extended to 3 days instead of 1. 4. ___________________________________________________
Capital m for memorial
The Mary Crozier memorial 5. ___________________________________________________
Computer Lab needs to be capitalized, and hyphen should be rem
computer lab in the voc-ed building 6. ___________________________________________________
will be open at lunch for the correct
7. ___________________________________________________
Monday and Wendasy needs to be spelled full out
computerized voting Mon-Wed, 8. ___________________________________________________
Date needs to be removedd
September 22nd through 24th. 9. ___________________________________________________
It needs open quotations marks
The more votes we tally, the fairer 10. ___________________________________________________
senior
the election is,” said Senior Marie 11. ___________________________________________________

SGA shouldn't be abbrieviated

Donohue, SGA president. She said, 12. ___________________________________________________
“We want alot of votes.” Spaces
13. ___________________________________________________
All ready on the 1st day, the There is a change needed for already, it needs to be one word
14. ___________________________________________________
sophomore
sophmore class has tallied over 150 15. ___________________________________________________
votes. Last year, only two hundred It's inconsistent here from line 15. It should be 200, not in words.
16. ___________________________________________________
Correct
students voted in total. 17. ___________________________________________________
Complement is compliment
“Its a complement to the 10th-grade 18. ___________________________________________________
girls campaigns,” said Annie Esposito, Girl's campaign needs an apostrophe
19. ___________________________________________________
Duchess doesn't need to capitilized
sophomore SGA representative and Duchess 20. ___________________________________________________
candidate. “weve all been working Put an apostrophe and the w for weeve needs to be capitilized
21. ___________________________________________________
You need close quotation marks
22. ___________________________________________________
to get out the vote.

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