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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide

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1. Woman to be married






2. Never okay - all tenses of a word meaning all right

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3. 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






4. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish






5. Noun. a fish - verb. to move clumsily or jerkily - to flop about






6. 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.






7. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton






8. Do not use before a date or day of the week (redundant) except at the beginning of a sentence.






9. Serious crime - someone is a felon if the have been convicted of a felony whether or not they have spent time in confinement






10. Means to make sure or give confidence






11. 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






12. Ashore and not on naval stations flags are flown at






13. Denotes praise of the expression of courtesy






14. To make an ostentatious or defiant display






15. The correct word to introduce clauses - .e.g Jayne blocks the linebacker __ he should






16. One who comes into a country ___s to it






17. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause






18. Writing paper






19. Not savings - no hyphen - when linking term with the name of a time zone - use only the word daylight (capitalize only when used with a time zone) - lowercase in all uses






20. Means more than half of an amount






21. Used in proper names and as someone in a parade






22. Not afterwards






23. A person who has acquired the full civil rights of a nation either by birth or naturalization. Cities and states in the U.S. do not confer citizenship.






24. All nouns that mean different computer functions. Must use these in two words when in verb form.






25. When referring to a group of men or men and women who attended a school






26. Refers to the result obtained by dividing a sum by the number of quantities added together






27. Plural form of problem or turning point






28. Man to be married






29. In general - confine capitalization to formal titles used directly before an individual's name






30. Action word - past tense is laid - present participle is laying






31. Refers to inhabitants of states and cities






32. Malicious - premeditated homicide - some states define certain homicides as this if the killing occurs in the course of armed robbery - rape - etc. - do not say a victim was ____ed unless it was proven in court - instead say the victim was killed or






33. Correct spelling of a words that means to make fit for - or change to suit a new purpose






34. Correct punctuation and spelling for family relative by marriage






35. 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






36. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10






37. A listener or reader ____s something from the words






38. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set






39. Kiss






40. When referring to a group of women who attended a school






41. Do not use when referring to East Asian nations and their peoples. Asian is the acceptable term for an inhabitant of these nations






42. 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






43. 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.






44. Create or put together. It is commonly used actively and passively.






45. Capitalize for architectural style or corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their name. Lowercase when used as an adjective.






46. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force






47. References to insurance






48. Is a contraction of who is - no possessive

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49. The proper name for some trains and buses






50. 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.