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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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1. 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.
either...or - neither...nor
principle
troupe
stanch
2. Use instead "survived by her husband" or "leaves her husband" not ______ of the late
bad
widower
No.
fiancee
3. 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.
refute
norm
media
website
4. Personal pronoun describing the deity are lowercase
between
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
allege
his
5. Extension of time or degree
accommodate
further
hanged
president
6. Two objects must be in motion before they can ____.
wrack
collide - collision
effect
national
7. Use all-caps ZIP for zoning improvement plan - but always lowercase the word code - run the 5 digits together without a comma and do not put a comma between state name and ZIP
who
more than
flout
ZIP code
8. 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.
NAACP
City Hall
citizen
nicknames
9. Introduces more than two items - all pronouns must be in the objective case - among us
among
ZIP code
marshal
Legislature
10. Use numerals - abbreviate mph - avoid hyphenated constructions
farther
speeds
flay
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
11. Proper spelling and capitalization for a Christian afterlife
altar
heaven
one another
felony
12. Preferred term for an aviator or a handbill
flier
on
premier
who
13. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
effect
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
infer
navel
14. Individual items reduced in number
City Council
insure
compliment
fewer
15. When referring to a group of women who attended a school
citizen
alumnae
plurality
buss
16. Means in addition to
further
besides
troops
plurality
17. Is the possessive of who
each
speeds
flaunt
whose
18. Capitalize their proper names - do not use quotes
either
alumna
its
reference works
19. To embarrass or disturb
pore
accommodate
staunch
faze
20. Means to influence
biannual
resident
literally
affect
21. Ashore and not on naval stations flags are flown at
hanged
off of
criterion
half staff
22. Copy pertaining to the navy
biennial
naval
people
lie
23. Twice a year (same as biannual)
felony
semiannual
forward
majority
24. Is a contraction of who is - no possessive
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25. A picture - a criminal or oneself
hang - hangs
troop
her
less
26. Two words in virtually all uses - one word only when used as an adjective before a noun in a nautical sense: an underway flotilla
NAACP
semiannual
ravage
under way
27. Completeness of process of supplementing something
off of
beside
complement
City Council
28. On ships and at naval stations flags are flown at
lay
half mast
stationary
besides
29. Capitalize as a title and lowercase in all other forms
refute
president
was drowned
her
30. Writing paper
courtesy titles
premier
stationery
complement
31. Spelling for the noun that carries a badge and gun and verb that describes one who keeps things in order
sneaked
principle
marshal
founder
32. Capitalize if part of a proper noun - lowercase in other uses.
effect
it's
City Council
altar
33. 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
hang - hangs
criterion
founder
34. Never alright. Hyphenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He is an all-right guy.
forward
Orient - Oriental
all right
refute
35. Is used when someone is the object of a verb or preposition
its
bus
Black muslim
whom
36. Not hyphenated when referring to electronic mail - hyphenate other e- terms such as: e-book or e-commerce
refute
email
Nobel Prize
flay
37. 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
composition titles
flout
semiannual
38. To argue to the contrary
in spite of
fiancee
farther
rebut
39. Only for ensembles of actors - dancers - singers - etc.
troupe
aid
resident
rebut
40. Do not use the term teenaged
teenage
aide
either...or - neither...nor
lay
41. Never towards - for a word meaning: moving in a specific direction
crises
widower
toward
accommodate
42. To change
founder
insure
resident
alter
43. 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
italics
murder
badly
medium
44. Never okay - all tenses of a word meaning all right
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45. Past tense when referring to executions or suicides
insure
resident
compliment
hanged
46. A contraction for it is or it has
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47. Plural means several groups of people - often military or animals
troops
citizen
ZIP code
bus
48. Kisses
like
in-law
busses
flier
49. Means to cause or as a noun means a result
widower
No.
effect
demolish or destroyed
50. A listener or reader ____s something from the words
primiere
either
alumnus
infer