AP Stylebook Exercises 3.7–3.8

Braden Shealy
2 min readFeb 12, 2021

3.7

1. The 25-year-old man wept as he left Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

2. This Nov. 10 will mark our anniversary.

3. Do not park the car on Rodeo Drive, instead, park it 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., the rodeo will begin in the Town Square.

7. On Feb. 10, the terrorists blew up their home at 123 Melrose St.

8. Twenty-two seamstresses were needed to mend the prom dresses.

9. About 5% 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. Smith bet $50 that her brother weighed more than a 1964 Chevrolet.

12. John Smith, the governor of California, set his trailer on fire on Sep. 1.

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

1. In August 1985, Davies rented a rutabaga stand in Augusta, Georgia.

2. Pomerantz tied the beehive to Sen. 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% 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 2 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. On the morning of Feb. 10, 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., Gov. Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas will give a short speech in front of the Gorgas Library.

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