Basic Rules
What AP stands for in AP Style
Associated Press
What is correct: "Toro said" or "said Toro"
Toro said
Which is correct:
a. Dec 12
b. Dec 12th
c. December 12
d. December 12th
a. Dec 12
What is the oxford comma
the final comma in a list of things.
Someone you are (usually) never supposed to put in the story
Yourself
Where punctuation goes in regards to quotations
Inside the quotation marks
Which titles do we capitalize
never
Adverbs
What you use for quotes within quotes
Single quotation marks
When a city and state are used together the name of the state should be _________
abbreviated
Which comma is the oxford comma: "Jamie had a notebook, binder, and pencil bag in her backpack."
the one after binder
The type of voice you are supposed to write in
Active
You do not use quotation marks for (only three)
Titles of magazines, newspapers, or the Bible.
When you are introducing an acronym for the first time, what should you do?
spell out the acronym, then put the acronym in parenthesis. Ex. National Honor Society (NHS)
The 4 things AP Style provides guidelines for
Grammar, punctuation, spelling, and language usage
You use quotation marks for (name three)
Titles of books, songs, television shows, computer games, poems, lectures, speeches and works of art.
What states do not get abbreviated (name three)
Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas and Utah