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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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
it's
courtesy titles
Nobel Prize
2. A person who gives advice - never advisor
naval
impostor
adviser
national
3. 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
it's
arrest
medium
between
4. Verb to stop the flow of something
century
biannual
beside
stanch
5. Is the possessive form of the neuter pronoun
its
ravish
altar
besides
6. When referring to a man who has attended a school
crisis
hang - hangs
alumnus
plurality
7. Do not use the term teenaged
whom
amid
who's
teenage
8. Refers to inhabitants of states and cities
stanch
buss
resident
refute
9. Past tense when referring to executions or suicides
affect
hanged
crises
muslims
10. Indicates a state of reclining. It does not take a direct object. Its past tense is lay. Its past participle is lain and present participle is lying - when __ means to make an untrue statement - the verb forms are lie - lied - lying.
lie
bus
resident
impostor
11. Means to make sure or give confidence
assure
accept
murder
subject
12. A listener or reader ____s something from the words
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
infer
crises
flier
13. The correct word to introduce clauses - .e.g Jayne blocks the linebacker __ he should
as
naval
it's
sneaked
14. Kisses
pour
his
busses
troupe
15. 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.
badly
flaunt
native
felony
16. Do not use these titles just refer to person by first and last name.
like
hanged
courtesy titles
reference works
17. Means to influence
century
affect
Nobel Prize
founder
18. 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.
citizen
as
flay
ravish
19. The pronoun used for references to human beings and to animals with a name
who
principle
flout
lay
20. The proper name for some trains and buses
norm
crisis
flyer
except
21. Acceptable but use Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
22. To make an ostentatious or defiant display
drowned
flaunt
literally
farther
23. A noun and adjective meaning someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree.
teenage
principal
person
flounder
24. Generally refers to spatial relationships (not numerals)
rebut
City Council
over
heaven
25. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force
national
teenage
principle
average
26. 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
accommodate
either
because
compose
27. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
ensure
century
biennial
all right
28. Denotes praise of the expression of courtesy
City Council
primiere
compliment
whose
29. Preferred with numerals (instead of over)
refute
more than
resident
each other
30. Never okay - all tenses of a word meaning all right
31. 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.
firefighter - police officer
Internet
hanged
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
32. Connotes success in argument and almost always implies an editorial judgement
flout
medium
refute
Cabinet
33. 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.
farther
national
phase
figuratively
34. Applies to various types of framework - the verb means to arrange on a rack - to torture - trouble or torment -
founder
criteria
rack
flay
35. Is acceptable on first reference to avoid a cumbersome lead - but provide the full name in the body of the story - HQ is in Baltimore
in-law
NAACP
Legislature
under way
36. Plural form of a standard
naval
criteria
ZIP code
fiancee
37. Correct spelling for one who deceives by using a false identity
impostor
majority
murder
hopefully
38. Two people look at - can be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
adviser
each other
norm
principal
39. Preferred term for an aviator or a handbill
century
alumni
marshal
flier
40. Two words in virtually all uses - one word only when used as an adjective before a noun in a nautical sense: an underway flotilla
whose
insure
faze
under way
41. Assistance
refute
aid
busses
besides
42. 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
crisis
allege
figuratively
alumna
43. Only for ensembles of actors - dancers - singers - etc.
semiannual
troupe
alter
allege
44. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set
which
like
speeds
medium
45. Not hyphenated when referring to electronic mail - hyphenate other e- terms such as: e-book or e-commerce
all right
naval
italics
email
46. The preferred term to describe adherents of Islam
muslims
firefighter - police officer
misdemeanor
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
47. References to insurance
alter
flay
insure
altar
48. Takes a singular verb
each
that
fewer
troops
49. To change
farther
ravish
sneaked
alter
50. A picture - a criminal or oneself
hang - hangs
under way
phase
defendant