Stylebook Quiz with Honor Answer Key (Northern Illinois University)

Do the exercises first at Grammar Matters. Open-book quiz.

Error(s) on every line of this newspaper stylebook quiz.
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New... Use the U.S. president's first name in the first reference: President Barack Obama ...
(The Associated Press, November 2008) (Not at The New York Times or The Washington Post.)

New... Figures for all ages, including animals and inanimate objects: a 3-year-old dog. (2007)

YOUR NAME:

1. by spanish Professor Carlos Verdad

2. by Dr. Veritas, his college sociology teacher,

3. by Playwright Nathan Emmet

4. New... [first reference] by President Obama

5. by Governor William Vero

6. by University president Rebecca Emmet

7. that the web is a part of the internet

8. get $10.00 tickets until 7:00 p.m.

9. New... a five-year-old car for $6000

10. Jan. 1, 2001 starts the millennium

11. at 1122 North Elm Street

12. in Green Bay, Wis. near the stadium

13. "Psycho", a classic thriller,

14. Ben Vero, Jr. was 8 years old

15. the blizzard of January, 1999

Ask for all of your mistakes to be circled. Use editing symbols to fix them. Resubmit until perfect.

 

Open-book quiz. Honor answer key.

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