Interesting Stylebook Entries

After going through the AP Stylebook, I found many interesting tendencies in the entries and the way in which the book was formatted. Firstly, I thought the entry of "almost never" was intriguing. On page 13 it says that you should not use this phrase. Instead, one should say seldom or hardly ever. After reading this, I noticed myself trying to correct myself when I was going to use the phrase. Once one becomes aware of what they should or shouldn't say, they can correct themselves when it comes up in context.

I am terrible at spelling, so a few of the entries enlightened me on spelling mistakes that i commonly make. One of these words is "judgment." I always put an E after the G, so it definitely helped to read over that and remind myself again how to spell it. I also saw that on page 246 it says to not use the word "towards," only "toward." I find myself correcting my words after I say that sometimes as well.

The final entry that I found to be helpful was "odd" on page 174. It says to follow with a hyphen when you use it. For example, "odd-looking" and "odd-numbered." The is helpful because I never understood when to use hyphens, and now I am aware that this is one place where they are needed.

The Stylebook is definitely going to help me out when I'm writing my next paper, or my next blog. By having this reference, I can understand different parts of grammar that I haven't studied or remembered recently. It is a helpful resource that I plan to keep near me when working on papers.

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