P-8 Capitalization...Mark Zuckerberg How does it feel to achieve business success at such a young...

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^ ^ P-8 Capitalization Edit the following sentences to correct any errors in capitalization. If a sentence has no errors, write correct after it. Answers to even-numbered items can be found at the back of the book. EXAMPLE 1. As of march 2016, the social network site, which got its start at Harvard university, had 1.6 billion active users, over 150 million of them in the united states. 2. In 2012, Free Press published a book by Lori Andrews, a professor at Chicago-kent college of law, about the social network giant. 3. The American bar association calls Andrews “A lawyer with a literary bent.” 4. The book by professor Andrews is titled I know who you are and I saw what you did: social networks and the death of privacy. 5. The first sentence of the book reads, “when David Cameron became Britain’s prime minister, he made an appointment to talk to another head of state—Mark Zuckerberg.” 6. Sheryl K. Sandberg is chief operating officer of facebook; previously, she worked for google. 7. Sandberg was also Chief of Staff for Lawrence Summers when he was Secretary of the Treasury. 8. She is famous for encouraging women to take on big challenges, and her book, Lean in, offers advice for how to do so. 9. Some critics question Sandberg’s focus on “women running the world as is,” wishing she would instead look at “women doing our part to change the world.” 10. Sandberg was born in Washington, DC, but had a floridian childhood before she headed north to Harvard. Name: _____________________________________________________ Class/section: ________________________________

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  • Mark Zuckerberg How does it feel to achieve business success at such a young age as mark zuckerberg, the cofounder Facebook ^ Cofounder of facebook, did? ^ ^

    P-8 Capitalization

    Edit the following sentences to correct any errors in capitalization. If a sentence has no

    errors, write correct after it. Answers to even-numbered items can be found at the back of

    the book.

    EXAMPLE

    1. As of march 2016, the social network site, which got its start at Harvard university, had 1.6

    billion active users, over 150 million of them in the united states.

    2. In 2012, Free Press published a book by Lori Andrews, a professor at Chicago-kent college

    of law, about the social network giant.

    3. The American bar association calls Andrews “A lawyer with a literary bent.”

    4. The book by professor Andrews is titled I know who you are and I saw what you did: social

    networks and the death of privacy.

    5. The first sentence of the book reads, “when David Cameron became Britain’s prime

    minister, he made an appointment to talk to another head of state—Mark Zuckerberg.”

    6. Sheryl K. Sandberg is chief operating officer of facebook; previously, she worked for google.

    7. Sandberg was also Chief of Staff for Lawrence Summers when he was Secretary of the

    Treasury.

    8. She is famous for encouraging women to take on big challenges, and her book, Lean in,

    offers advice for how to do so.

    9. Some critics question Sandberg’s focus on “women running the world as is,” wishing she

    would instead look at “women doing our part to change the world.”

    10. Sandberg was born in Washington, DC, but had a floridian childhood before she headed

    north to Harvard.

    Name: _____________________________________________________ Class/section: ________________________________