AP News Writing

Eric won fifteen million in last week's lottery

Answer explanation

Express dollar amounts as numerals, preceded by the "$" sign.

Example: $5, $15, $150, $150,000, $15 million, $15 billion, $15.5 billion

Mrs. Stalcup had her baby in Aug

Answer explanation

Dates

Do not abbreviate any month without a date.

To many highschoolers hang out at the skate park

Answer explanation

"to" should be "too" in this instance.

Which is correct to or too?

“Too” is an adverb. It can be used to replace words such as “excessively”, “additionally”, “as well” or “also”.

High schoolers = two words, not one.

My freind and i went to Mcdonalds after school

Answer explanation

misspellings: friend, McDonald's

Use upper case I.

Don't forget the period at the end of the sentence.

he rented harry potter on dvd

Answer explanation

Capitalize titles.

Harry Potter

DVD is capitalized.