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AP Style E
- Either = One or the
Other, not both.
- Right: "There were lions on each side of the door."
Wrong: "There were lions on either side of the door"
- Right: "There were lions on each side of the door."
Wrong: "There were lions on either side of the door"
- Either or/Neither nor
- Require a verb that agrees with the nearer subject
- "Neither they nor he is going.
Neither he nor they are going"
- "Neither they nor he is going.
Neither he nor they are going"
- Require a verb that agrees with the nearer subject
- Ensure: To mean guarantee
- "steps were taken to ensure accuracy"
- Insure: For references to insurance
- "The policy insures his life"
- Assure: To make sure or give confidence
- "she assured us the
statement was
accurate"
- "she assured us the
statement was
accurate"
- "The policy insures his life"
- "steps were taken to ensure accuracy"
- Entitled: A right to do or have something.
DO NOT USE to mean "titled"
- "she was entitled to the promotion"
- "The book was titled, 'Gone With the Wind'"
- "she was entitled to the promotion"
- Essential/Nonessential clauses
- Essential = cannot be
eliminated without changing
the meaning of the
sentence.
- Essential restricts the meaning of the word
or phrase that its absence would lead to a
substantially different interpretation of
what author meant.
- "Reporters who do not read the Stylebook
should not criticize their editors"
- Who, Whom, That, Which = introduce
Essential clauses and refer to
INANIMATE OBJECT or animal without
name.
- "He said Monday that the part of the army
which suffered severe casualties needs
reinforcement."
- "Which" is only used when
"that" appears as a
conjunction to introduce
another clause in the same
sentence.
- "He said Monday that the part of the army
which suffered severe casualties needs
reinforcement."
- "Reporters who do not read the Stylebook
should not criticize their editors"
- Essential clause MUST NOT be SET OFF by
COMMAS.
- Essential restricts the meaning of the word
or phrase that its absence would lead to a
substantially different interpretation of
what author meant.
- Nonessential = can be eliminated
without altering basic meaning of the
sentence
- Nonessential does not restrict the meaning
so significantly that its absence would
radically alter the author's thoughts.
- "Reporters, who do not read the Stylebook,
should not criticize their editors"
- "Reporters, who do not read the Stylebook,
should not criticize their editors"
- MUST be SET OFF by COMMAS
- Nonessential does not restrict the meaning
so significantly that its absence would
radically alter the author's thoughts.
- Essential = cannot be
eliminated without changing
the meaning of the
sentence.
- Essential/Nonessential phrases
- Essential = word/group of words
critical to reader's understanding of
what author had in mind.
- Nonessential = provides more info
about something. Although helpful,
reader would be misled if the info were
not there.
- DO USE COMMAS
- "They ate dinner with their daughter
Julie and her husband, David."
- Don't confuse punctuation rules for
Nonessential clauses with the correct
punctuation when a nonessential word is used
as a descriptive adjective.
- "Julie and husband Jeff went shopping." VS.
"Julie and her husband, Jeff, went shopping"
- "Company Chairman Henry Ford II made the announcement." VS.
"The company chairman, Henry Ford II, made the announcement."
- "Julie and husband Jeff went shopping." VS.
"Julie and her husband, Jeff, went shopping"
- "They ate dinner with their daughter
Julie and her husband, David."
- DO USE COMMAS
- DO NOT set off by commas.
- "We saw the award-wining movie 'One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'"
- "We saw the award-wining movie 'One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'"
- Nonessential = provides more info
about something. Although helpful,
reader would be misled if the info were
not there.
- Essential = word/group of words
critical to reader's understanding of
what author had in mind.
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