EXERCISE P9-4Numbers
Edit the following sentences to correct errors in the use of numbers. If a sentence is correct, write “correct” after it. Type your answers in the boxes below.
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The carpenters located 3 maple timbers, 21 sheets of cherry, and 10 oblongs of polished ebony for the theater set.
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The program’s cost is well over one billion dollars.
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The score was tied at 5-5 when the momentum shifted and carried the Standards to a decisive 12-5 win.
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8 students in the class had been labeled “learning disabled.”
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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, had fifty-eight thousand one hundred thirty-two names inscribed on it when it was dedicated in 1982.
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