1. What is the point of AP style?
Consistency, clarity, accuracy, and brevity
2. Over what age should you begin using numbers instead of spelling it out?
Always spell out ages.
3. How do you format a person’s height?
6foot1.
4. How would you write out noon, 4 o’clock, half past 4, and a quarter to 5? These are all
PM.
Noon, 4 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 4:45 p.m.
5. How many spaces are after a period?
Just one.
6. How do you write the fourth of June in 1972?
June 4, 1972.
7. How do you format one million dollars?
$1 million.
8. Five dollars?
$5.
9. How is boulevard abbreviated?
Blvd.
10. When should you capitalize titles?
Always.
11. How would you abbreviate Iowa?
Iowa.
12. Minnesota?
Minn.
13. Do you ever capitalize the year of school a person is in? (EX: freshman, sophomore,
etc...)
No.
14. How do you refer to a person by name throughout an article.
First and last name on first mention, then last name throughout.
15. Can you break a word by hyphenating it and continuing on the next line?
Yes.
16. When do you not abbreviate states that you otherwise would
When it’s not mentioned in association with a city.