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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. Writes or speakers ____s in the words they use
alter
median
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
imply
2. Never forwards to explain moving toward a position ahead
flay
media
forward
stationary
3. Two people look at - can be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
ravish
assure
each other
daylight saving time
4. 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.
italics
Fourth of July
widow
troupe
5. Copy pertaining to the navy
naval
imply
criterion
half staff
6. Is the possessive form of the neuter pronoun
Fourth of July
felony
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
its
7. Use the abbreviation for number in conjunction with a figure to indicate position or rank
No.
lay
marshall
fewer
8. Means more than the highest number (subtract lower number from highest number to get this)
medium
flyer
Orient - Oriental
plurality
9. Not hyphenated when referring to electronic mail - hyphenate other e- terms such as: e-book or e-commerce
email
marshal
infer
median
10. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
complement
last
drowned
manslaughter
11. Create or put together. It is commonly used actively and passively.
staunch
besides
biennial
compose
12. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
wrack
lie
either
fiancee
13. Connotes success in argument and almost always implies an editorial judgement
mean
firefighter - police officer
national
refute
14. On ships and at naval stations flags are flown at
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
City Council
her
half mast
15. Preferred as past tense of sneak. Never use snuck
hopefully
sneaked
afterward
was drowned
16. 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
City Council
person
daylight saving time
that
17. To stand still
hung
marshall
besides
stationary
18. Means in addition to
besides
less
half staff
naval
19. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause
flier
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
since
badly
20. Correct spelling for all uses of a word that means to happen or take place
plurality
ZIP code
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
one another
21. Applies to various types of framework - the verb means to arrange on a rack - to torture - trouble or torment -
figuratively
flare
flounder
rack
22. Means at the side of
plurality
troop
beside
City Council
23. Means more than half of an amount
majority
murder
primiere
troupe
24. Plural means several groups of people - often military or animals
was drowned
medium
troops
heaven
25. Transportation vehicle
like
compose
bus
magazine names
26. 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.
whom
City Hall
website
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
27. When referring to a group of women who attended a school
alumnae
aid
marshal
fiance
28. Do not use the term teenaged
teenage
like
insure
crises
29. Literally - to strip off the skin by whipping - figuratively to tongue-lash a person
flay
mean
its
federal
30. Bulk or quantity reduced in number
primiere
Fourth of July
collide - collision
less
31. Correct spelling of a words that means to make fit for - or change to suit a new purpose
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
accommodate
toward
flare
32. 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.
insure
drowned
composition titles
badly
33. Correct spelling of an individual or group being sued or charged with a crime
defendant
naval
muslims
alumnus
34. Action word - past tense is laid - present participle is laying
whose
lay
daylight saving time
semiannual
35. Denotes praise of the expression of courtesy
compliment
Internet
over
fiancee
36. A noun and adjective meaning someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree.
magazine names
principal
homicide
impostor
37. An aspect or stage
fiance
that
phase
who's
38. Means to exclude
comprise
accommodate
except
compliment
39. The preferred term to describe adherents of Islam
federal
muslims
biennial
phase
40. Is a contraction of who is - no possessive
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41. Applied to a person residing away from the nation of which he or she is a citizen - or to a person under the protection of a specified nation.
muslims
buss
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
national
42. Capitalize with the name of city or when referenced specifically. lowercase when plural and when used generically (you can't fight city hall)
resident
as
literally
City Hall
43. 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
Black muslim
daylight saving time
biannual
who
44. Implies that another person caused the death by holding the victims head under the water.
less
hanged
was drowned
medium
45. Capitalize if preceded by state name or when used in proper title. lowercase in other uses.
effect
Legislature
average
who
46. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
naval
century
staunch
bad
47. Capitalize initials of name but do not place in quotes
flier
marshal
Internet
magazine names
48. In the sense of mass communication - such as magazines - newspapers - the news services - radio - television ad online
either
stationary
comprise
media
49. Only for ensembles of actors - dancers - singers - etc.
under way
troupe
stationary
busses
50. Means to flow in a continuous stream
courtesy titles
infer
pour
medium