Exercise 13-5 Errors, style and clarity

The following story has a number of errors that need to be corrected. Read through it carefully and make any changes you believe are necessary so that it will be clear to a reader.

     Flooding due to last nights rain storm, has damaged sevierely consturction work on the city’s newest radio station.

     WXXg, which was secheduled to go on the air next month, has had it’s air date moved back at least a mont, according to station spokesman Linda Rival.

     Miss Rival, who is also one of the station’s co-owners and has been advertised as planning to be one of the station’s diskjockeys, said the floods severely damaged the interiro of the station and knowked down the half-completed towar.

     “We haven’t detemined the full extent of the damage, said Miss Rival, but I’s sure its going to be bad.

     She said the station would be delayed at least a month in going on the air.

     The flooding was caused by some heavy rains that feel throughout the state earlier in the weak.  Several homs and businessses in the area of the station known as Flat plains was reported damaged.