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English Brushup, 3e Book Cover
English Brushup, 3/e
John Langan
Janet Goldstein
Numbers and Abbreviations

Writing On/Off

These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can e-mail your work to him or her and also to yourself by copying your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and pasting them (CTRL-V) into an email or text document.



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Activity 1

Do an internet search to find out what historical events happened on your birthday. You might begin your search here. What did you discover? What was the most important thing (besides your birth!) that happened on that day? Did any major political events occur?

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Activity 2

The abbreviations AM and PM are perhaps the most common in the English language. Do you know what they stand for? Do you know what their names mean? Use the internet to find out. You might begin your search at one of the following search engines:









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