Question

A student is handwriting a letter to the editor, and writes the following sentence. Dear Editor of the Springfield Times-Courier, I am writing because your article 'Local Elementary School Grows a Garden' made several errors. Which option shows the correct format for the titles in this sentence?

1) Dear Editor of the Springfield Times-Courier, I am writing because your article 'Local Elementary School Grows a Garden' made several errors.
2) Dear Editor of the Springfield Times-Courier, I am writing because your article Local Elementary School Grows a Garden made several errors.
3) Dear Editor of the Springfield Times-Courier, I am writing because your article Local Elementary School Grows a Garden made several errors.
4) Dear Editor of the Springfield Times-Courier, I am writing because your article Local Elementary School Grows a Garden made several errors.

Answer 1

Option 1 is correct because it correctly places the article title 'Local Elementary School Grows a Garden' in quotation marks and capitalizes the newspaper name 'Springfield Times-Courier'.

Step-by-step explanation:

The correct format for the titles in the sentence should be as follows: Dear Editor of the Springfield Times-Courier, I am writing because your article 'Local Elementary School Grows a Garden' made several errors. Titles of articles are typically placed in quotation marks to set them apart from the rest of the text. Furthermore, proper nouns such as the name of the newspaper should be capitalized to adhere to standard English mechanics regarding proper nouns. Therefore, the correct option is option 1) which uses quotation marks around the article title and capitalizes the newspaper name correctly.