The Basics To Having AP Style

Question 0

Under what circumstances, only, can the abbreviation of people’s credentials be used correctly?

Answer 0

Only after stating someone’s whole name or trying to highlight multiple persons by degree (for the first time) can using the abbreviated way of identifying someone’s credentials be seen as correct.

Question 1

How should someone’s degree be mentioned?

Answer 1

Abbreviation should not be used. Using a phrase such as, “Michael Phelps who has a master’s in swimming” would be the correct way.

Question 2

How are commas used to abbreviate a person’s academic-credentials along-side their name?

Answer 2

An academic abbreviation, when it comes after someone’s name, is to be placed between two commas.

Question 3

What’s the proper way to use courtesy titles for a person having a degree?

Answer 3

Don’t use courtesy titles for a person having a degree and recognize it with an abbreviation in the same reference. It’s one or the other.

Question 4

How are academic departments properly denoted?

Answer 4

All words are to be written in lowercase, unless they are proper nouns, adjectives, or the word “department” used with an official or formal name.

Question 5

How should abbreviations be used if denoting addresses?

Answer 5

Abbreviations of street, boulevard, etc. should only be used with numbered addresses. They should be spelled out otherwise (lower-cased only when denoting multiple street names).

Question 6

What is the only way to correctly denote numbers in an address?

Answer 6

The correct way to denote numbers in an address is by figures.

Question 7

When should figures be used with their subscripts when denoting an address?

Answer 7

A subscript should be used with its corresponding figure, when the figure being used in an address is greater than 9. When 1-9 is being used in an address, it is to be spelled out (Sixth).

Question 8

In an address, how should direction be denoted.

Answer 8

In an address, directions should be abbreviated if its numbers are included. If an addresses numbers are not included, then spell them out (West).

Question 9

Affect vs. Effect

Answer 9

To affect is to influence. To effect is to cause.

Question 10

How are you to correctly denote someone’s age?

Answer 10

When denoting the age of anything alive, figures are to be used.

Question 11

How are you to denote the age of something inanimate?

Answer 11

An inanimate object’s age is denoted spelling out numbers.

Question 12

How are hyphens used when ages are used like adjectives?

Answer 12

21-year-old Elizabeth

Figure-Year-Old-Name

Question 13

a.m. & p.m.

Answer 13

“noon” & “midnight” stand alone

Question 14

What is the correct way to denote the plural forms of acronyms such as CD?

Answer 14

There’s no need for apostrophes.

Question 15

How is California abbreviated?

Answer 15

California is abbreviated “Calif.”, and its abbreviation should only be used specifying a city.

Question 16

“Passed Away”

Answer 16

Never say it. AP’s style is to say “died”.

Question 17

Using “held” or “hold” for Impact

Answer 17

Avoid it. More often than not, it can be substituted for stronger words.

Question 18

What’s the correct way to denote a month?

Answer 18

A month is always capitalized.

A month is abbreviated only when a specific date is being mentioned. Only months that are six letters long or more are correctly abbreviated.

A month is spelled out when denoted alone or with a year.

Apostrophes are used denoting specific dates, only.

Question 19

Numerals

Answer 19

Using numerals at the start of sentences is just aesthetically wrong.

Numerals one through nine are spelled out.

Numerals 10, 11, etc. are to be written as figures.

Figures are to be used when denoting percentages, weights, ratios, million or billion, court decisions or sport scores.