Lab Activity 51: Numbers and Abbreviations

Lab Activities
Lab Activity 51: Numbers and Abbreviations

Objective To practice recognizing and correctly using numbers and abbreviations.

Step 1: In each item below, write a sentence as instructed. You may refer to Chapter 51.

Example:
Write a sentence mentioning a two-word page number and an organization known by its initials.
On page one hundred of our course's text is a brief history of IBM.


		1. Write a sentence mentioning a date, a specific time, and a street name that includes an ordinal. To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

		2. Write a sentence mentioning the name, including the abbreviated title, of a person you know who has a Ph.D. degree. To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

		3. Write a sentence mentioning a date, a specific time, and an address. To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

		4. Write a sentence mentioning a three-word page number and a percentage. To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

		5. Write a sentence mentioning a name that includes Jr. in the middle of the sentence. To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

		*Step 2:* Now, select the topic of one of the sentences you wrote in Step 1. Write a paragraph of at least five sentences using that topic. In your paragraph, include an organization known by its initials, a specific date, a specific time, and a street name with an ordinal. After you finish, proofread for errors in the use of numbers and abbreviations, correcting any mistakes you find. To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

		*Step 3:* For each sentence below, select the choice that uses numbers and abbreviations correctly. If the original sentence is correct, select "No change." 1. N.A.S.A. has offered tours at the Kennedy Space Center for more than 29 years. [Hint]

		2. My cousin and I decided to take the tour during our 7-day trip to Florida that began on April tenth, two thousand six. [Hint]

		3. My pampered cousin, whose full name is Kyle A Ferris Junior, likes to sleep late, so we didn't arrive at Kennedy Space Center until 12:00 noon. [Hint]

		4. I had read about the U.S. space program in chapter thirty-seven of my textbook for my history class, and the prof. had gotten me even more interested me in it. [Hint]

		5. I was especially interested in Apollo 13, which was launched at two thirteen PM. EST on April Eleventh, 1970, and was scheduled to be the 3rd landing on the moon. [Hint]

		6. The mission was aborted because of explosions in the oxygen tanks; it was commanded by James A. Lovell, Jr., who later co-wrote his first book about the experience. [Hint]

		7. At the end of the mission, which lasted for one hundred forty-two hours, fifty four minutes, and forty one seconds, the astronauts were still alive. [Hint]

		8. In Nineteen Ninety-Five, the movie Apollo 13 told the next generation about the event 25 years after it happened. [Hint]

		9. Back at home, I was only on page ninety eight of Jim Lovell's book, which was about thirty percent through the book, when I heard that Mister Lovell was giving a talk at a nearby bookstore. [Hint]

		10. After driving 9 miles, I arrived at the bookstore on Seventeenth Street, where I heard Jim Lovell speak and, at eight twenty two pm, I got his autograph on my copy of his exciting book. [Hint]

		*Step 4:* Now that you have practiced recognizing the correct use of numbers and abbreviations, pretend that you have taken a tour of a city, town, or famous historical place in the United States. Write a letter of at least five sentences to a friend or family member describing your tour. In your letter, include the date (with the year) and time of your tour, an address, the name of an organization known by its abbreviation, and the proper name and title of someone you met on the tour. After you finish, proofread for errors in numbers and abbreviations, correcting any mistakes you find. To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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