AP Stylebook should be worth its weight in gold

There are quite a few things I have learned from the AP Stylebook.  Over the last 7 weeks, I have realized there is so much to learn about the English language. I like that there is the AP Stylebook to keep everything consistent; however, I like to write however I like but that doesn’t mean it’s always right.  Before this class, I really didn’t give much thought to the capitalization of certain things like spelling out “dimensions”. I never thought there was a time to spell out feet, inches, yards, etc. when writing a story. The AP Stylebook has set me straight on that, and I’ve been doing it wrong my whole life. It says, “Use figures to spell out inches, feet yards, etc., to indicate depth, height, length and width. Hyphenate adjectival forms before nouns. Use an apostrophe to indicate feet and quote marks to indicate inches (5’6”) only in very technical contexts.”

So now that this problem is solved, we can all sleep better. My next quest is to get APA style and MLA style on the same page when it comes to the serial comma. It really takes a lot of brain power to stop and think about what class I’m writing a paper for, whether or not I use a serial comma.

My grammar error for the week was found on Black Island Farms Web page. My son wanted a phone number to call and see if they needed any seasonal help, we found this:

 

I’m just going with the red circle, since there are quite a few errors.  

So… there is threw (which they used here) which means: to propel or cast in any way, then there’s through (which they should have used) which means: over the surface of, by way of, or within the limits or medium of.