AP Style

Question 1

When are digits always used?

Answer 1

D-MA(2)PS(2)
Date/X (midnt/noon)
Money (cents)
Addresses
Ages 6-year-old girl/girl is 6 years old
Percent Use w/o space: Pay rose 3.1%; 4 percentage points.
For amts < 1%, precede the decimal w/ zero: The cost of living rose 0.6%.
If casual: a zero percent chance of a date
12% to 15%, 12%-15% and between 12% and 15% (Note percent signs both X.)
Size/dimension 5-foot-6 man; the rug is 9 feet by 12 feet; 9-by-12 rug; 9-inch rug
Speed

Question 2

How do you punctuate Jr?

Answer 2

Bob Jr.

No comma and period.

Question 3

How do you punctuate a singular common n ending in s?

lass

Answer 3

Add ’s, even when the following word begins with an s

the virus’s reach, the virus’s spread; the witness’s answer, the witness’s story

Question 4

How do you punctuate a singular proper noun ending in s?

Answer 4

only an apostrophe

Achilles’ heel

Question 5

If month, day, and year are used?

Answer 5

March 10, 1990, or Oct. 14, 1995.

(Set off year w/ comma.)
Abbrev all months longer than 6 letters (7 total).

Question 6

If Month and a year are used?

Answer 6

Spell out the month (no matter how long).

August 2022

Question 7

If month and day are used?

Answer 7

MD (abbreviate)

Abbreviate the month

Question 8

Dates should never have “st, nd, rd, or th.”

Answer 8

Oct. 3
There is no 12, noon/midnt

Question 9

How do you write am/pm?
midday?
on the hour?

Answer 9

With periods, a.m./p.m.
noon/midnight (no 12s)
Use only the digits when time is on the hour. 8 p.m. (not 8:00)

Question 10

WiFi, wifi, wi-fi, Wi-Fi?

Answer 10

Wi-Fi
internet (l/c)

Question 11

email or e-mail?
Website, website, Web site?
webpage, Webpage, Web page, web page
Internet & Web

Answer 11

email
website
webpage
l/c

Question 12

between vs among

Answer 12

Use between when talking about two items, among when referencing more than two

Question 13

Address: Compass points

Answer 13

Abbrev compass pts in a numbered address: 222 E. 42nd St., 562 W. 43rd St., 600 K St. NW.
Don’t abbrev if number is omitted: East 42nd Street, West 43rd Street, K Street Northwest.
l/c in tx: She headed north on the road.

Question 14

Address: Numbering

Answer 14

Spell and capitalize First-Ninth for street names; use figures for 10th+: 7 Fifth Ave., 100 21st St.

Question 15

Address: Street Name

Answer 15

If number is not incl, spell out street nm; abbrev st nm (ave, blvd., st. (ABS) if full addr

l/c and spell out if used with more than one street name: Marks and Penn avenues

Question 16

Address: Street words that are always spelled out

Answer 16

Words: drive, road, alley, terrace (DRAT) are always spelled out.

Question 17

TX or Texas?

Answer 17

Use a two-letter postal code abbreviation only with a full address that includes zip code.

Question 18

States: When are they always spelled out?

Answer 18

Spell out the names of the states in text when they appear alone.

Question 19

States: When are states abbreviated?

Answer 19

Abbreviate when in conjunction with the name of a city, town, village or military base:
Needham, Mass.; Oxnard Air Force Base, Calif.

Question 20

States: What 8 states are never abbreviated?

Answer 20

Do not abbreviate Alaska, Maine, Ohio, Utah, Texas, Hawaii, Idaho and Iowa (A-MOUTHI)

Question 21

Publications

Answer 21

books, movies, operas, plays, poems, songs, radio, podcast and television programs, lectures, speeches and works of art

BRAT S(2)LOP’M

Put quotation marks around the title.

Question 22

Reference material

Answer 22

No quotes for Bible, the Quran and other holy books, and books that are primarily catalogs of reference material: almanacs, directories, dictionaries, encyclopedias, gazetteers, handbooks and similar publications.

Question 23

Newspapers/magazines

Answer 23

no quotes

Question 24

Modifiers in academic titles

Answer 24

Lowercase modifiers such as department in department Chair Jerome Wiesner.

Question 25

More than vs. over

Answer 25

More than is preferred with numbers, while over generally refers to spatial elements.

The company has more than 25 employees; The cow jumped over the moon.

Question 26

Because vs since

Answer 26

Use because to denote a specific cause-effect relationship: I went because I was told.

Since is acceptable in casual senses when the first event in a sequence leads logically to the second, but wasn’t its direct cause. They went to the show, since they had been given tickets.

A good tip is to use since for time elements: Since the product’s 2010 launch, it has sold more than 1 million copies.

Question 27

Toward, forward/towards, forwards?

Answer 27

Toward/Towards. Toward never ends in an s, same for forward, backward, upward, downward, etc.

Question 28

That vs. which

Answer 28

Use that & which when referring to inanimate objects or animals w/o names.
Use that for essential clauses important to the meaning of the sentence.
Ex: I remember the day that we met.
Which’s for nonessential clauses, where the pronoun is less necess, w commas
Ex: The team, which won the championship last week, began a new season.

Question 29

How do adverbs ending in -ly read? Is there a hyphen?

badly battered canoe
fully informed voter

Answer 29

No hyphen is needed between adverbs ending in -ly and adjectives they modify: an easily remembered rule, a badly damaged island

Question 30

Veterans Day
Veterans’ Day

Answer 30

Veterans Day