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Grammar
Punctuation
States
Quotes
Numbers
100
While talking about an alcoholic you would use "recovering" or "reformed" to explain their situation?
What is recovering?
100
AP Style for using someone's age.
What is hyphen between the numeral, year , and old? (Ex. 23-year-old)
100
This city is the only one in Minnesota that stands alone in datelines.
What is Minneapolis?
100
Proper AP style for song titles
What is in quotations?
100
This type of numbers can be used for wars and to establish personal sequence for people and animals.
What are roman numerals?
200
The act of doing something to another thing vs the result of the action.
What is the difference between affect and effect?
200
She was fully informed/fully-informed before making her decision.
What is fully informed, without the hyphen?
200
Name three states that are never abbreviated in AP style.
What is Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas and Utah?
200
The number of people you can quote in a paragraph.
What is one?
200
All numbers should be spelled out when?
What is at the beginning of a sentence?
300
In the news this word is used to show that there was a misspelling or incorrect grammar in an interview's quotation.
What is sic?
300
When describing the time of day, you would use this form of description.
What is a.m./ p.m.?
300
The region of states in the south and the west area of the country stretching from Florida and Georgia to California.
What is the Sun Belt?
300
You have a compelling reason to quote someone who uses profanity. Do you use stars *** or hyphens --- to cover-up the profanity? Like F*** or F---?
What are hyphens?
300
This number is the last to be written out generally.
What is nine?
400
To show an abrupt change in thought or to show an emphatic pause you would use what form of punctuation.
What is dash?
400
I believe what I mean by that is Mr. Schlegel was still supportive of Mr. Schmidt's/Mr. Schmidts' causes," Thor testified.
What is Mr. Schmidt's?
400
Which state is not a stand-alone city in the dateline: Honolulu, Cleveland, and Portland?
What is Portland?
400
The only time you would place a period outside the quotation marks.
What is when the quoted material is not a sentence?
400
The university is planning to contract the company for $10 to $12 million/$10 million to $12 million.
What is $10 million to $12 million.
500
When would you spell out the name of a month?
What is when using it with a year or with only the name of the month alone?
500
In the case of a quote within a quote does AP style demand double quotes or single quotes around the internal quote?
What is single quotes?
500
How would you abbreviate Delaware in AP Style?
What is Del.
500
True or False: When writing out quotes for a story, you can use the words gunna or wanna to convey regional dialects.
What is False?
500
Chris has $1,000,000/$1 million in his account
What is $1 million in his account?