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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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journalism-and-media
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A noun and adjective meaning someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree.
principal
stanch
premier
nicknames
2. Capitalize as a title and lowercase in all other forms
president
buss
titles
City Council
3. The title of an individual who is the first minister in a national government that has a council of ministers. also the correct title for individuals who lead the provincial governments in canada and australia
liaison
premier
buses
under way
4. Do not use the term teenaged
bad
rock 'n' roll
buss
teenage
5. Spelling for the noun that carries a badge and gun and verb that describes one who keeps things in order
titles
media
marshal
principal
6. To avoid any suggestion that someone is being judged before a trial - do not use a phrase such as arrested for killing. Instead - use arrested on a charge of killing. If a charge hasn't been filed - arrested on suspicion of - or a similar phrase - sh
media
semiannual
arrest
crises
7. A table-like platform used in a religious service
rebut
altar
flout
who
8. Plural means several groups of people - often military or animals
further
troops
alter
No.
9. Preferred as past tense of sneak. Never use snuck
literally
further
sneaked
widow
10. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
wrack
complement
firefighter - police officer
City Council
11. For non essential clauses - where the pronoun is less necessary and use commas. use when referring to inanimate objects and to animals without a name
which
bad
phase
half staff
12. Singular form of a standard
majority
troupe
marshall
criterion
13. For hanging not referring to a person's death
hung
farther
mean
drowned
14. A person who serves as an assistant
murder
stationery
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
aide
15. Individual items reduced in number
lie
phase
reference works
fewer
16. Multiple transportation vehicles
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
buses
norm
teenage
17. Takes plural verb - use it to mean one or the other - not both - right: she said to use either door - wrong: there were lions on either side of the door
either
italics
naval
among
18. A group of people - often military or animals
alumnus
firefighter - police officer
troop
in-law
19. Should only be used in place of the person's name if it is what the individual prefers to be known as.
half mast
nicknames
Nobel Prize
either...or - neither...nor
20. Capitalize for architectural style or corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their name. Lowercase when used as an adjective.
over
national
demolish or destroyed
federal
21. One who comes into a country ___s to it
last
immigrate
person
flare
22. Use instead "survived by his wife" or "leaves his wife" not ______ of the late
widow
Orient - Oriental
media
because
23. Means to cause or as a noun means a result
less
effect
wrack
alumni
24. Two words in virtually all uses - one word only when used as an adjective before a noun in a nautical sense: an underway flotilla
heaven
in-law
under way
No.
25. Capitalize with the name of city or when referenced specifically. lowercase when plural and when used generically (you can't fight city hall)
faze
NAACP
resident
City Hall
26. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
century
stanch
president
muslims
27. A listener or reader ____s something from the words
hopefully
in-law
infer
accept
28. Also Independence Day. The federal legal holiday is observed on Friday if July 4 falls on a Saturday - on Monday if it falls on a Sunday.
principle
busses
among
Fourth of July
29. More than two people look atcan be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
bus
bad
mean
one another
30. Do not use these titles just refer to person by first and last name.
norm
courtesy titles
affect
pore
31. One who leaves a country ___s from it
each
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
flounder
emigrate
32. Correct spelling for one who deceives by using a false identity
biannual
impostor
bad
troop
33. Literally - to strip off the skin by whipping - figuratively to tongue-lash a person
one another
flay
widower
primiere
34. Two objects must be in motion before they can ____.
collide - collision
alumnus
Fourth of July
founder
35. Generally refers to spatial relationships (not numerals)
flout
one another
over
lie
36. Create or put together. It is commonly used actively and passively.
compose
toward
subject
whose
37. When referring to a man who has attended a school
alumnus
primiere
aid
No.
38. Refers to the result obtained by dividing a sum by the number of quantities added together
muslims
ravage
average
composition titles
39. A member of a predominantly black Islamic sect in the United States. However the term is considered DEROGATORY by members of the sect - who call themselves muslims
Black muslim
infer
faze
reference works
40. A location on the World Wide Web that maintains one or more pages at a specific address. Also webcam - webcast - and webmaster. But as a short form and in terms with separate words - the Web - Web page and Web feed.
literally
principal
website
ensure
41. Means to guarantee
ensure
medium
people
founder
42. Applies to various types of framework - the verb means to arrange on a rack - to torture - trouble or torment -
alumna
marshall
his
rack
43. References to insurance
rock 'n' roll
insure
whose
speeds
44. Extension of time or degree
Legislature
further
media
Internet
45. Legal term for slaying or killing
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
homicide
majority
half staff
46. Is used when someone is the object of a verb or preposition
criteria
century
hung
whom
47. A person who gives advice - never advisor
speeds
her
premier
adviser
48. Should not be used as an adverb - use only as adjective. "I feel badly" - could be interpreted as meaning that your sense of touch was bad.
hang - hangs
murder
badly
amid
49. Preferred term for an aviator or a handbill
flier
among
National Organization for Women
compliment
50. Capitalize their proper names - do not use quotes
since
murder
reference works
effect