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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. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
flout
navel
literally
native
2. 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
whose
alter
ZIP code
3. A specific body of advisers heading executive departments for a president - king - governor - etc
literally
more than
Cabinet
flier
4. To bog down become disabled or sink
hung
between
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
founder
5. Extension of time or degree
her
further
troupe
No.
6. 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
primiere
flare
daylight saving time
homicide
7. The term denoting that an individual was born in a given location
native
alumnae
plurality
National Organization for Women
8. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
aid
troops
wrack
semiannual
9. To change
alter
biennial
majority
alumna
10. 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
principle
pore
allege
toward
11. More than two people look atcan be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
mean
semiannual
hanged
one another
12. Should only be used in place of the person's name if it is what the individual prefers to be known as.
widower
nicknames
website
national
13. 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
premier
either
effect
flounder
14. 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
native
pore
marshal
NAACP
15. In the sense of mass communication - such as magazines - newspapers - the news services - radio - television ad online
media
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
City Hall
premier
16. 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
drowned
composition titles
his
assure
17. 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.
flaunt
more than
fiancee
either...or - neither...nor
18. Is the possessive form of the neuter pronoun
farther
its
among
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
19. To show contempt for
pour
Nobel Prize
was drowned
flout
20. Every two years
ravage
biennial
compliment
fewer
21. A minor offense against the law
refute
misdemeanor
each
manslaughter
22. AP does not italicize words in news stories.
altar
stanch
italics
misdemeanor
23. A picture - a criminal or oneself
compliment
buses
hang - hangs
flier
24. Connotes success in argument and almost always implies an editorial judgement
majority
like
refute
infer
25. 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
mean
as
allege
premier
26. Preferred as past tense of sneak. Never use snuck
further
sneaked
as
ZIP code
27. To embarrass or disturb
pore
faze
Internet
principle
28. 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.
allege
Internet
alumnus
each other
29. Do not use these titles just refer to person by first and last name.
either
courtesy titles
crises
besides
30. A person who serves as an assistant
fewer
founder
complement
aide
31. A noun and adjective meaning someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree.
principal
allege
City Hall
emigrate
32. One who comes into a country ___s to it
flout
immigrate
accommodate
City Council
33. Is the possessive of who
farther
among
whose
as
34. Do not use this pronoun in reference to nations or ships except in quoted matter
website
comprise
founder
her
35. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force
daylight saving time
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
pour
principle
36. Adjective stopped - firm and steadfast
staunch
manslaughter
who
flay
37. A contraction for it is or it has
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38. Do not use the term teenaged
subject
teenage
speeds
fiancee
39. To swing the arms widely
troupe
fiancee
flair
people
40. A person who gives advice - never advisor
badly
firefighter - police officer
manslaughter
adviser
41. Not hyphenated when referring to electronic mail - hyphenate other e- terms such as: e-book or e-commerce
president
premier
email
primiere
42. Means to cause or as a noun means a result
pour
hung
nicknames
effect
43. Should not be used as an adverb. It does not lose its status as an adjective - however - in a sentence such as "I feel bad." Such a statement is the idiomatic equivalent of I am in bad health.
average
bad
composition titles
flaunt
44. A preposition to compare nouns and pronouns. requires an object - ex. Jayne blocks ___ a pro.
navel
like
less
emigrate
45. To make an ostentatious or defiant display
more than
flaunt
bus
City Hall
46. Implies that another person caused the death by holding the victims head under the water.
email
defendant
was drowned
murder
47. Not afterwards
refute
person
afterward
nicknames
48. Only for ensembles of actors - dancers - singers - etc.
troupe
national
in-law
last
49. When referring to a woman who has attended a school
alumna
hopefully
altar
hanged
50. The correct word to introduce clauses - .e.g Jayne blocks the linebacker __ he should
as
alumnus
effect
flay