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4. Anthony Small is President of the local chapter of the afl-cio.

5. On the first sunday in march, the Packards will have their family

reunion.

Review Exercise 27-4 Identifying and

Correcting Capitalization Errors

Underline and correct the twenty capitalization errors (two per

sentence) in the paragraph below.

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Every morning, my retired neighbor, mrs. grimes, takes a brisk walk
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down harrison street. In her nikes and her chicago cubs hat, she is
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a familiar sight to people along her route, which never varies. She
walks south toward bob’s handi-mart, where she pops in for her
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morning cup of maxwell house coffee. She chats with hassan, who
works the cash register, and buys a copy of the snellville times.

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Then she walks west down pauldo avenue toward st. luke’s church. At
the church, her route veers north past the ymca and the little row of
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shops on milk street. At wet pets, the tropical fish store, she

stops to look in the window at the colorful fish and the stacked
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displays of hartz mountain fish food. Then she walks on past emil’s
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cut and style and baskin-robbins. If she continued north, she would