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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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Subject
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Transportation vehicle
bus
wrack
besides
on
2. In its sense used in arithmetic and statistics - is an average and is determined by adding the series of numbers and dividing the sum by the number of cases
pour
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
flaunt
mean
3. To bog down become disabled or sink
National Organization for Women
founder
last
immigrate
4. When referring to a woman who has attended a school
bus
alumna
in-law
average
5. Do not use before a date or day of the week (redundant) except at the beginning of a sentence.
principal
fiancee
on
flyer
6. For essential clauses -important to the meaning of a sentence and without commas. Use when referring to inanimate objects and to animals without a name
that
flare
widow
plurality
7. Denote a specific cause-effect relationship
speeds
troop
teenage
because
8. Refers to the result obtained by dividing a sum by the number of quantities added together
reference works
on
average
altar
9. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set
lie
medium
average
in-law
10. Correct spelling of an individual or group being sued or charged with a crime
each other
flyer
more than
defendant
11. One who comes into a country ___s to it
daylight saving time
immigrate
accept
primiere
12. 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
arrest
subject
average
compliment
13. Capitalize if part of a proper noun - lowercase in other uses.
heaven
less
buss
City Council
14. Avoid the use of last as a synonym for latest if it might imply finality - this word is unnecessary to imply the most recent if there is a month or day used.
person
primiere
last
flyer
15. Use instead "survived by his wife" or "leaves his wife" not ______ of the late
as
widow
alumnus
courtesy titles
16. Never alright. Hyphenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He is an all-right guy.
naval
people
all right
effect
17. Means in an exact sense
literally
hung
buss
impostor
18. A decentralized worldwide network of computers that can communicate with each other in later references the Net is acceptable - World Wide Web - like email - is a subset of the Internet. They are not synonymous and should not be used interchangeably.
on
principal
Internet
fiancee
19. Multiple transportation vehicles
website
buses
collide - collision
refute
20. Use with great care - Avoid any suggestion that the writer is making an allegation - Specify the source of an allegation (arrest record etc.) - Use alleged bribe or similar phrase when necessary to make it clear that an unproved action is not being
allege
nicknames
national
person
21. 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
staunch
more than
Nobel Prize
either
22. Past tense when referring to executions or suicides
hanged
bad
plurality
norm
23. Use instead "survived by her husband" or "leaves her husband" not ______ of the late
assure
troop
widower
biannual
24. One who leaves a country ___s from it
emigrate
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
flout
naval
25. A group of people - often military or animals
half mast
as
farther
troop
26. To change
widower
alter
muslims
flyer
27. Means more than the highest number (subtract lower number from highest number to get this)
whose
plurality
No.
compose
28. Individual items reduced in number
toward
fewer
National Organization for Women
flare
29. A person who serves as an assistant
aide
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
hung
immigrate
30. Use numerals - abbreviate mph - avoid hyphenated constructions
which
adviser
effect
speeds
31. A first performance
impostor
forward
who
primiere
32. 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.
widow
principal
either...or - neither...nor
magazine names
33. Means in a hopeful manner. Do not use to mean it is hoped - let us hope or we hope - right: It is hoped we will complete our work in June. wrong: Hopefully - we will complete our work in June.
allege
buss
hopefully
bad
34. Means to influence
affect
crisis
pour
figuratively
35. 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
primiere
which
felony
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
36. Plural form of problem or turning point
crises
affect
No.
bad
37. When referring to a group of men or men and women who attended a school
flaunt
affect
alumni
principal
38. Man to be married
that
who
further
fiance
39. Assistance
hang - hangs
aid
crisis
courtesy titles
40. A listener or reader ____s something from the words
all right
naval
afterward
infer
41. Physical distance
last
compliment
farther
insure
42. A preposition to compare nouns and pronouns. requires an object - ex. Jayne blocks ___ a pro.
like
Legislature
who
demolish or destroyed
43. Writing paper
stationery
national
troop
No.
44. Personal pronoun describing the deity are lowercase
premier
his
fewer
speeds
45. Woman to be married
who's
ravage
fiancee
further
46. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
assure
altar
was drowned
drowned
47. For hanging not referring to a person's death
hung
aide
alumnus
affect
48. Books - computer games - movies - operas - plays - poems - albums and songs - radio and tv programs - lectures - speeches and works of art should all: - capitalize principal words - capitalize an article - quotes around these works that are not: reli
farther
daylight saving time
hung
composition titles
49. When referring to a man who has attended a school
misdemeanor
alumnus
insure
compliment
50. Capitalize if preceded by state name or when used in proper title. lowercase in other uses.
faze
Legislature
forward
compose