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Beginning of Sentence, Title, Subtitle
Beginning of Sentence, Title, Subtitle
- Chapter:
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(p. 787)
Units of Measure
- Author(s):
Phil B. Fontanarosa
and Stacy Christiansen
A unit of measure that follows a number at the beginning of a sentence, title, or subtitle should not be abbreviated, even though the same unit of measure is abbreviated if it appears elsewhere in the same sentence. (See , Numbers and Percentages, Spelling Out Numbers, Beginning a Sentence, Title, Subtitle, or Heading; and , Numbers and Percentages, Spelling Out Numbers, Common Fractions.) |
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