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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. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
norm
ravish
century
flair
2. Verb to stop the flow of something
refute
stanch
titles
alumna
3. Bulk or quantity reduced in number
flare
one another
less
federal
4. When speaking of an individual
flay
person
National Organization for Women
because
5. The nouns that follow these words do not constitute a compound subject; they are alternate subjects and require a verb that agrees with the nearer subject - Neither they nor he is going - Neither he nor they are going.
crisis
homicide
figuratively
either...or - neither...nor
6. A person who gives advice - never advisor
adviser
navel
federal
flounder
7. The pronoun used for references to human beings and to animals with a name
misdemeanor
email
besides
who
8. Capitalize their proper names - do not use quotes
citizen
reference works
liaison
flaunt
9. Action word - past tense is laid - present participle is laying
homicide
people
besides
lay
10. Not afterwards
felony
flout
afterward
bad
11. 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
plurality
either
sneaked
average
12. To bog down become disabled or sink
founder
phase
navel
Legislature
13. Correct spelling of a words that means to make fit for - or change to suit a new purpose
flay
accommodate
literally
median
14. 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.
crisis
stationery
website
badly
15. To change
titles
immigrate
plurality
alter
16. Literally - to strip off the skin by whipping - figuratively to tongue-lash a person
flaunt
its
flay
farther
17. Two objects must be in motion before they can ____.
daylight saving time
in-law
collide - collision
felony
18. A person who serves as an assistant
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
felony
president
aide
19. Correct spelling for one who deceives by using a false identity
criteria
impostor
lay
insure
20. The correct word to introduce clauses - .e.g Jayne blocks the linebacker __ he should
as
person
murder
criterion
21. 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
stationery
Black muslim
wrack
troops
22. Capitalize for architectural style or corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their name. Lowercase when used as an adjective.
Black muslim
medium
comprise
federal
23. In an analogous sense but not in an exact sense
figuratively
navel
Nobel Prize
wrack
24. Contain to include all or embrace. Used only actively.
alumni
comprise
primiere
italics
25. Correct spelling for all uses of a word that means to happen or take place
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
buses
criteria
national
26. Copy pertaining to the navy
Legislature
stanch
lie
naval
27. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set
speeds
medium
century
fewer
28. For hanging not referring to a person's death
less
premier
buses
hung
29. Refers to the result obtained by dividing a sum by the number of quantities added together
naval
average
phase
troop
30. Is the possessive form of the neuter pronoun
its
marshall
it's
criterion
31. Woman to be married
half staff
fiancee
email
troops
32. Use instead "survived by his wife" or "leaves his wife" not ______ of the late
accommodate
national
widow
alumna
33. Homicide without malice or premeditation
manslaughter
widow
compliment
stationery
34. Acceptable but use Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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35. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
Orient - Oriental
his
imply
navel
36. Capitalize if part of a proper noun - lowercase in other uses.
manslaughter
City Council
reference works
assure
37. Use instead "survived by her husband" or "leaves her husband" not ______ of the late
widower
criteria
Nobel Prize
immigrate
38. Is the possessive of who
naval
federal
principal
whose
39. A listener or reader ____s something from the words
except
widower
infer
it's
40. Transportation vehicle
between
flout
bus
like
41. Preferred as past tense of sneak. Never use snuck
century
sneaked
liaison
daylight saving time
42. Serious crime - someone is a felon if the have been convicted of a felony whether or not they have spent time in confinement
felony
subject
was drowned
criterion
43. To embarrass or disturb
faze
like
staunch
fiance
44. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
wrack
hung
muslims
affect
45. Applies to various types of framework - the verb means to arrange on a rack - to torture - trouble or torment -
Internet
login - logon - logoff
imply
rack
46. Legal term for slaying or killing
last
homicide
heaven
amid
47. Personal pronoun describing the deity are lowercase
navel
his
mean
fiance
48. One who comes into a country ___s to it
each other
over
immigrate
national
49. Man to be married
fiance
majority
nicknames
ZIP code
50. All tenses of the word that means a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
firefighter - police officer
heaven
pore