Monday, September 2, 2013

Exercises 3.5, 3.7 & 3.8

3.5 Using the Stylebook 3
  1. The United States is sometimes not the best market for U.S. products.
  2. The correct form:
    1. upward
    2. Labour
    3. Avenue
    4. cupfulls
    5. eyeing
  3. The Republican differed from the Democrat many times during the debate.
  4. Drs.  John Smith and Mary Wilson performed the operations.
  5. The correct form:
    1. good will
    2. USS Eisenhower
    3. cigarette
    4. mid-America
  6. He said he was neither a Communist nor a member of the Communist Party.
  7. After her surgery, she had to wear a pacemaker.
  8. "What a hare-brained scheme!" she exclaimed.
  9. preempt, speedup, 55 mph, hooky
  10. The underworld, or Mafia, was responsible for the murder.

3.7 Using the Stylebook 5
  1. The 25-year-old man wept as he left Hattiesburg, Miss.
  2. This Nov. 10 will mark our anniversary.
  3. Do not park the car on Rodeo Drive. Instead, park at 12 Davies St.
  4. They spent $130 to buy a new set of nose rings.
  5. Smoots moved to the North because the people there are so nice.
  6. At 7 p.m. this evening, the rodeo will begin in the Town Square. (it'd be better to say something like "Tuesday")
  7. Yesterday On Tuesday, the terrorists blew up their home at 123 Melrose St.
  8. Twenty-two seamstresses were needed to mend the prom dresses.
  9. About 5 percent of the professors have lost their hair.
  10. After 2 feet of snow fell at his home in Columbus, Ohio, Jones decided to leave.
  11. Miss Smith bet $50 that her brother weighed more than a 1964 Chevy.
  12. Guy Reel, the Governor of California, set his trailer on fire Sept. 1. (don't capitilize titles that come AFTER the name)
  13. A fire began at 3325 McDonald Drive when an oven full of rutabagas exploded.
  14. During the 1970s, everyone wore bell-bottom blue jeans to church.

3.8 Using the Stylebook 6
  1. In August 1985, Davies rented a rutabaga stand in Augusta, GA. (Ga.)
  2. Pomerantz tied the beehive to Senator Gramm's cowboy hat.
  3. About 1,200 Easter rabbits were killed in the explosion at Big Dave's Bunny Warehouse, located at 2525 Hackensack Drive.
  4. In the 1980s, Davies left the Midwest and moved to the Loire Valley in France.
  5. Smoots brought two cups of coffee to the Governor.
  6. About 8 percent of the cantaloupes have been stuffed with rutabagas.
  7. Jones bet $40 that his roommate had hidden the sandwich.
  8. The three university professors share a house at 613 25th Ave.
  9. After two feet of snow fell at his home in Columbus, Ohio, Davies decided to leave the Midwest and move to the South.
  10. On Dec. 11, all classes will be canceled.
  11. Yesterday On Tuesday morning, the mayor skipped her aerobics class.
  12. Davies drove 2 million miles in his old Toyota Corolla before it blew up.
  13. Dr. Kildare said he had filed a malpractice suit against Marcus Welby.
  14. At 8 p.m. in the evening, Governor Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas will give a short speech in front of the Gorgas Library.

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