Question

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The headlines that show yellow journalism are the ones that say things like "50,000$ reward, destruction of the War Ship Maine was the Work of an Enemy, and lastly, "Naval officers think the Maine was destroyed by a Spanish Mine. These headlines were printed in the New York Journal. The New York Journal was known for exaggerating their stories to sell more newspapers. These headless are examples of yellow journalism because they use big headlines and words to make people scared and angry. They also instantly blame Spain without any proof. Lastly, they offer a big reward to make it seem as if Spain actually attacked them. These stories played a major role in U.S involvement in the Spanish-American War, This was because people started to demand action, which pressured the government to declare war. The increased anger toward Spain convinced Americans that was was needed.

keep my wording, list and fix errors, and tel me how to fix them please.

Answer 1

Here is a corrected version that keeps your wording and meaning but fixes grammar, spelling, punctuation, and a few small wording errors:

The headlines that show yellow journalism are the ones that say things like "$50,000 reward," "Destruction of the War Ship Maine was the Work of an Enemy," and, lastly, "Naval officers think the Maine was destroyed by a Spanish mine." These headlines were printed in the New York Journal. The New York Journal was known for exaggerating its stories to sell more newspapers. These headlines are examples of yellow journalism because they use big headlines and words to make people scared and angry. They also instantly blame Spain without any proof. Lastly, they offer a big reward to make it seem as if Spain actually attacked them. These stories played a major role in U.S. involvement in the Spanish-American War. This was because people started to demand action, which pressured the government to declare war. The increased anger toward Spain convinced Americans that war was needed.

List of specific fixes and how to fix them
1. "50,000$" → "$50,000": Put the dollar sign before the number.
2. Broken/unclear quotes → separate each headline into its own quoted phrase and close the quotes correctly. Example: "$50,000 reward," "Destruction of the War Ship Maine was the Work of an Enemy," and "Naval officers think the Maine was destroyed by a Spanish mine."
3. Capitalization of "Destruction…" kept (as part of headline) and "mine" lowercased — common nouns within quotes should be lowercase unless part of a title.
4. "headless" → "headlines": corrected the misspelling.
5. "their stories" → "its stories": changed pronoun to agree with the singular noun "The New York Journal."
6. "These headless are examples…" → "These headlines are examples…": fixed plural noun and corrected spelling.
7. "U.S involvement" → "U.S. involvement": add periods after U and S and use a space after the period.
8. Run-on / comma splice: split "These stories played a major role in U.S involvement in the Spanish-American War, This was because…" into two sentences: "...Spanish-American War. This was because…" to avoid a comma splice.
9. "was was" → "war was": correct the repeated word.
10. Minor punctuation/flow: added commas (for example after "and, lastly,") and adjusted sentence breaks so each idea reads clearly.

If you want it even closer to your original phrasing, tell me which words or capitalizations you absolutely don’t want changed and I’ll adjust accordingly.