Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Game Film Week 9



1.     NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Flatulence DID IT?  – DOES TEXT SUPPORT THIS LEAD? brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an unscheduled visit to Nashville
2.     Look up in AP use of ordinal numbers & see this reading on suspensive hyphenation: http://editingmonks.blogspot.com/2006/02/compound-modifiers.html
3.     What issue is raised in the following? The FBI questioned passenger Maria Coyle, who said she struck the matches in an attempt to conceal personal body odor. Coyle lives near Dallas and has a medical condition.
4.     Knowing what you know, which is correct?
a.     said Pat Lowrance, a spokesperson for the Nashville International Airport Authority
b.     said Pat Lowrance, a spokesman for the Nashville International Airport Authority
c.     said Pat Lowrance, a spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority

5.     Fix this: The plane was able to land safely.
6.     Fix this: (Keep in mind in this story we already know we are at airport).
7.     They responded to the emergency situation at the airport, Lawrence said.
8.     Fix this: The passengers and five crew members were all brought off the plane.
9.     Fix this: bomb-sniffing dogs were able to find used matches
10. Fix this: Striking a match in an airplane can lead to a second-or third-degree misdemeanor arson charge.
11. Fix this: (See AP on “governmental bodies and this ) – The airport authority responded to the emergency.
12. Fix this: (See AP on “governmental bodies) – The port authority responded to the airliner that crashed into the harbor.
13. Fix this: (See AP) "American has banned her for a longtime," Lowrance said
14. Fix this: (See AP)  He is a long time supporter of the Georgia Bulldogs.
15. Fix this: flight 1053 (extrapolate from the AP rule on “room numbers)
16. Fix this: She struck the matches to try and conceal personal body odor.
17. Fix this: The fine for striking a match in an airplane can be considerable. It can range from $5,000 to $10,000. (What does it mean to be “considerable”? A subjective notion variously defined by different people. Make sentence concrete and concise.)
18. Fix this: NASHVILLE – Ninety-nine passengers on an American Airlines flight made an unscheduled visit to Nashville Monday morning around 6 a.m. after a woman tried to hide her body odor.
19. Fix this: … after passengers reported smelling the odor of struck matches.
20. Fix this: A woman used matches in order to eliminate the odor.
21. Fix this: an unscheduled visit to Nashville Monday morning around 6 am.
22. Fix this: The FBI questioned a passenger Maria Coyle, who said she …
23. Fix this: American has banned her for a longtime.
24. Fix this: Striking a match in an airplane can lead to a 2nd or 3rd degree misdemeanor arson charge.
25. Which is correct?
a.     NASHVILLE, TENN., – An American Airlines flight
b.     NASHVILLE, Tenn. – An American Airlines flight
c.     NASHVILLE – An American Airlines flight
d.     NASHVILLE, Tenn., – An American Airlines flight

HEDS:
        Struck matches grounds plane early
DWI = Matches struck to hide odor grounds plane
Try to eliminate the echo
Smell of struck matches grounds plane
 
An American Airlines flight made an unscheduled landing in Nashville after passengers complained about the smell of struck matches on the plane.
 
 
 
What’s missing here? Is it DWI?
Airline bans woman after use of matches


Into/In To; Onto/On To
by Tina Blue / January 19, 2001 / http://grammartips.homestead.com/into.html

See also AP in/into

          The pairs into/in to and onto/on to cause a lot of confusion for writers, but much of that confusion can be cleared up if you focus on exactly what you are trying to say.


A. IN TO vs. INTO:

          I. Into is a preposition. In a sentence, the preposition
into
will be part of a prepositional phrase consisting of
into + its object + any modifiers of its objects
. The entire phrase it is a part of will function adverbially to modify the
verb
or verb phrase that precedes the phrase.


          1. When he walked into the room, he found that the            meeting had already started.

          2. Put the toys into the basket.

          3. The pumpkin was turned into a carriage.


          II. In the phrase in to, in is an adverb, directly modifying a verb, and to is a preposition with its own object. When the word into is used in a sentence where in to is meant, the resulting statement can be absurd.