Thursday, October 30, 2008

For your reading enjoyment

We have 10 more flubs for your reading enjoyment. There are mistakes in these sentences that were found before they made it into The Forum. Do you know what they are?

1. Services include a dental lab, x-rays and a pharmacy.

2. The blast sent a loose piece of sheetrock falling to the ground.

3. The free hotline provides immediate response to voters.

4. "At some point, our kids got left on the backburner."

5. He started sexually abusing her when she was seven years old.

6. That's what he's doing, even if it seems farfetched.

7. Their German Sheppard cross had a gaping gash on her back.

8. The West Fargo show highlights student art work.

9. NDSU is hosting the thirteenth annual Sonia Kovalesky High School Day on Sept. 26.

10. Some older boys kept calling the fourth grader "bucktooth."

1. Services include a dental lab, X-rays and a pharmacy.

2. The blast sent a loose piece of Sheetrock falling to the ground.
AP Stylebook: Sheetrock A trademark for a brand of gypsum wallboard.

3. The free hot line provides immediate response to voters.
AP Stylebook: hot line A direct telephone line between government leaders, especially the circuit linking the United States and Russia, for use in crisis situations. Lowercase. Webster's New World Dictionary: telephone line to a social service agency, as a suicide prevention center. two words

4. "At some point, our kids got left on the back burner."

5. He started sexually abusing her when she was 7 years old.
AP Stylebook: ages Always use figures for people and animals (but not for inanimates).

6. That's what he's doing, even if it seems far-fetched.

7. Their German shepherd cross had a gaping gash on her back.

8. The West Fargo show highlights student artwork.

9. NDSU is hosting the 13th annual Sonia Kovalesky High School Day on Sept. 26.

10. Some older boys kept calling the fourth-grader "bucktooth."
AP Stylebook: grade, grader Hyphenate both the noun forms (first-grader, second-grader, 10th-grader, etc.) and the adjectival forms (a fourth-grade pupil, a 12th-grade pupil).

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