Home Introduction   The Exercises Set 1 Newsroom 1 - Newsroom 10 Set 2 Newsroom 11 - Newsrroom 20 Set 3 Newsroom 21 - Newsrroom 30 Set 4 Newsroom 31 - 40 Set 5 Newsroom 41 - 50 Set 6 Newsroom 51 - 65   Newsroom-All Random selection from all exercises The Review Exercises All of them Practice on Specific Topics Another way to use these exercises   Additional Resources

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Exercises in Grammar, Usage and Associated Press Style

These free, self-instructional exercises are based on issues of grammar, usage and AP style that arose at a daily newspaper. They are offered here for people who are learning or reviewing journalistic language. Teachers are invited to assign students to practice these exercises, but there is no provision for a teacher to track student performance. Please note: Many of the exercises apply to English in general, but some of them apply only to journalistic language as governed by The Associated Press Stylebook and may differ from standard English usage. When an explanation refers to "the official dictionary," that is Webster's New World College Dictionary, the AP's first reference for anything not covered in the Stylebook itself.

The Review Exercises After you have practiced a group of exercises above, review them with a random selection of 15 items from each group (or 20 items, because during some revisions, we forgot that we promised you 15).

Newsroom 1-5 Review (15 items from exercises 1-5, selected randomly) Newsroom 6-10 Review (15 items from exercises 6-10, selected randomly) Newsroom 11-15 Review (15 items from exercises 11-15, selected randomly) Newsroom 16-20 Review (15 items from exercises 16-20, selected randomly) Newsroom 21-25 Review (15 items from exercises 21-25 selected randomly) Newsroom 26-30 Review (15 items from exercises 26-30, selected randomly) Newsroom 31-35 Review (15 items from exercises 31-35, selected randomly) Newsroom 36-40 Review (15 items from exercises 36-40, selected randomly) Newsroom 41-45 Review (15 items from exercises 41-45, selected randomly) Newsroom 46-50 Review (15 items from exercises 46-50, selected randomly) Newsroom 51-55 Review (15 items from exercises 51-55, selected randomly) Newsroom 56-60 Review (15 items from exercises 56-60, selected randomly) Newsroom 61-65 Review (15 items from exercises 61-65, selected randomly)   Newsroom-All Review A random selection of 15 items from the first 65 sets of exercises. You will get a different selection each time you choose this option. Be patient. It takes a moment to assemble your review quiz from such a large question bank. If the selection does not seem totally random, blame your browser. It does the randomizing.

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