Punctuation
"I love football." is an example of this type of clause.
What is an independent clause?
Name the word that fills in the blank: _____ ever stole my cherry pie will be sorry.
What is Who?
You capitalize someone's title (President, Vice President, etc.) when it comes _____ their name in a sentence.
What is before?
In most cases, you spell out these numbers.
What are zero through nine?
This kind of punctuation mark is not used for lists of items in AP style.
What is the Oxford comma?
The sentence, "She wrote the news release, he distributed it." is an example of this common comma error.
What is a comma splice?
Fill in the blank: The captain went out of his way to save my sister and ____.
What is me?
After introducing a person in a news story, you use this part of their name for the rest of the story.
What is last?
You always use numbers, not words for this/these. (Multiple possible answers)
What is age?
What is temperature?
What is percentage?
What is room number?
What is weight?
What is money?
The proper way to format September 11, 2020 is this.
What is Sept. 11, 2020?
This is a punctuation mark used when two closely related independent clauses do not seem to need a period between them.
What is a semicolon?
Name the word that fills in the blank: This horse, ____ I love, is well-bred.
What is which?
In some cases, it is wise to do this for all business titles in case people in your organization do not understand AP style.
What is capitalize?
You use a mix of numbers and figures when you reach this high number.
What is a million?
What are spring and summer?
Quotation marks should appear in this location relative to other punctuation marks.
What is outside?
"A herd of wombats is stampeding on the street." is an example of ____ disagreement because herd is singular in American English.
What is subject-verb disagreement?
The second time you reference a company or organization, you use these in place of its name.
What are initials?
For fractions smaller than one, you spell out the amount and use this punctuation mark.
What is a hyphen?
AP no longer abbreviates state names when they follow this/these in sentences.
What are city names?
These are used to set off a sudden thought that interrupts the progress of a sentence.
What are hyphens?
"The company loves their employees." is an incorrectly worded sentence because there is _____ disagreement?
What is pronoun disagreement?
This is the proper way to say Business Companies in AP style.
What is Business Cos.?
For fraction numbers larger than one, use decimals and these.
What are figures/numbers?
Name one of the states AP style does not abbreviate in datelines aside from Texas. (Multiple possible answers)
What is Idaho?
What is Hawaii?
What is Alaska?
What is Iowa?
What is Maine?
What is Ohio?