AP Style Exercise

1. AP Style Exercise
Turn in on Wednesday.
Using the AP Stylebook, correct the sentences below. Use editing symbols found in
the back of the stylebook. The number in parentheses at the end of the sentence
tells you how many errors need to be corrected.
The robbery occurred just after 12:00 midnight at 1074 East 500 North in Riverton,
Utah.
Matthew James, age 21 from Mesa, Arizona majoring in Political Science, discovered
500 dollars beneath the driver’s seat of the rental car.
Bryan Richards, age 24, of Salt Lake City, Utah, served a mission in Spokane,
Washington, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Alison Brown, along with 3 other students, raised over 600 dollars, enough to cover
tuition for fourteen children in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for a month.
Cindy Smith, 35, was admitted to the hospital on November 30, 2004, for a routine
colonoscopy. 7 days later, she was in intensive care.
Pres. Obama will travel from the U.S. to London, England, for a 5-day meeting with

2. British prime minister David Cameron.
William Rehnquist, former Chief Justice of the United States, died on Saturday,
September 4, 2005 at his home in Reston, VA.
The discussion of the movie Of Mice And Men begins at 4:00 PM.
Even though it was January, 2006, Jones continued to use phrases from the 80’s.
The Prosecutor used an Email dated February 12, 1999 as trial evidence against the
criminal.