Exercise A: Numbers and Abbreviations

 

Part I.

Directions: Identify the correct rules for using numbers and abbreviations by clicking "True" or "False" after each statement.

1 You should spell out numbers that take no more than two words ("seventy-two").
True
False
2 For numbers that take more than two words, use the digits (350).
True
False
3 It’s best to spell out some numbers and use digits for other numbers in the same paragraph.
True
False
4 You should spell out the numbers for percentages (three percent).
True
False
5 You should also spell out the numbers before "o’clock" (seven o’clock).
True
False

 

Part II.

Directions: In the following sentences, if an underlined portion needs correction, click on the option that can replace it. Click "no change" if the sentence is correct as is.

1 Julio and I are meeting at seven o’clock on June seventh.
7 o’clock
June 7
no change
2 It took me eight hours to read 23 pages of the text.
8 hours
twenty-three pages
no change
3 The answer to your question can be found in Chapter ten on page 26.
Chapter 10
page twenty-six
no change
4 We expect costs to increase by fifty percent as of January 20.
50 percent
January twentieth
no change
5 I work in a fourteen-story building on Sixteenth Street.
14-story
16th Street
no change

 

Part III.

Directions: Can you identify when to use abbreviations? In the following sentences, if an underlined portion needs correction, click on the option that can replace it. Click "no change" if the sentence is correct as is.

1 Sometime between Mar. 15 and April 31, I will be in Los Angeles.
March 15
Apr. 31
no change
2 Please buy twenty dol. worth of stamps next time you are at the post office.
twenty dollars
p.o.
no change
3 The doctor said her three pck. a wk. smoking habit wasn’t helping her health.
Dr.
three pack a week
no change
4 I took us five weeks to find an apt. we both liked.
5 wks.
apartment
no change
5 On the first day of Eng. class, the teacher gave us a quiz on the American novel.
English
Amer.
no change