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100
The football game will be played Thursday/on Thursday.
What is Thursday
100
She felt bad/badly when she had the flu.
What is bad?
100
There are three marbles: the red one, the blue one (and/,and) the green one.
What is and? *no oxford comma: last item in a list is not preceded by a comma
100
Junta arrests hundreds/100s after attempted countercoup, claims control of capital.
What is hundreds
100
The Paly baseball team is implementing their/its new practice plan.
What is its
200
"Bob went to the store," teacher advisor/adviser Natalie Docktor said.
What is advisor? *spelling
200
The two top football recruits were coequal/co-equal.
What is coequal
200
Any one/Anyone of the students may come to the lecture.
What is Any one
200
The fundraiser raised $2.00/$2.
What is $2? *for whole number monetary values, no decimals
200
The three friends decided to keep the discussion between/among themselves.
What is among
300
“I believe what I meant by that is Ms. Mellon was still supportive of Mr. Edwards’s/Mr. Edward’s/Mr. Edwards’ causes,” Brumberger testified.
What is Mr. Edwards'
300
The boys water polo team, which/that played Burlingame Saturday, will face Gunn tomorrow.
What is which?
300
She echoes/echoed Bob's sentiment.
What is echoed?
300
She lives at 124 West 23rd St./ 124 W. 23rd St.
What is 124 W. 23rd St.
300
The crossing guard is stationed at 123 Central Blvd/Boulevard.
What is Blvd. *abbreviate street, avenue and boulevard when they are included in a numbered address, but spell out otherwise
400
Only 20 %/percent/per cent of our membership attended the meeting.
What is percent
400
The Vikings will be playing/will play next Thursday.
What is will play?
400
"The pool closing will definitely affect/effect our performance next year," Johnson said.
What is affect?
400
The accident at the intersection of U-S Highway 50/U.S. Highway 50 and killed a 47-year-old man/47 year old man.
What is U-S Highway 50 and 47-year-old man?
400
Headline: paly rocks to perform on quad thursday What words should be capitalized?
What is Paly, Rocks, Quad, Thursday
500
Fix: Measure D was not passed by Palo Alto voters in November.
What is Palo Alto voters did not pass Measure D in November. *passive voice
500
She is running against Bob Smith, former City Council Member/city council member.
What is city council member? *lowercase city council member
500
Dean of Students Mr. Tuana/Craig Tuana declined to comment.
What is Craig Tuana?
500
The second/2nd District Court will hire two/2 law clerks this year.
What is 2nd and two? *usually spell out first-ninth, but some ordinal numbers indicating political or geographic order, use figures in all cases
500
How do you properly credit a photo at the end of a caption?
What is Photo by First Name Last Name.
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