AP Stylebook exercises

3.5

1.The United States is sometimes not the best market for its own products

2. upward, British Labour Party, Riverside Ave., cupfuls, eyeing

3. The Republicans differed from the Democrats many times during the debate.

4.Dr. John Smith and Dr. 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 hair-brained scheme!” she exclaimed.

9. preeempt, speedup, 55 mph, hooky

10. The 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 amount of beer before going to the football game.

3. As Einstein said, “All knowledge is relative.”

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

5. The mayor refused to go along with the city council vote. “I descent,” he stated.

6. Madonna certainly has a flair for fashion. She always wear 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 Counsil.

10. Jones was on the flood 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. November 10, will mark our anniversary.

3. Do not park the car on Rodeo Drive. Instead, park it at 12 Davies St.

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

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

6. At 7p.m., the rodeo will begin in the Town Square.

7. The terrorists blew up their home at 123 Melrose Street.

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 on his home in Columbus, Ohio, Jones decided to leave.

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

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

13. A fire began at 3325 McDonald Drive. When an oven full of rutabagas exploded.

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