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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. Do not use the term teenaged
teenage
No.
adviser
infer
2. Do not use the colloquial past tense form - pled. All tenses of a word that means appeal or request earnestly
flare
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
crises
adviser
3. Used in the United Kingdom or other monarchies. Citizen is also acceptable.
over
figuratively
subject
stanch
4. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set
federal
medium
email
flair
5. To show contempt for
Orient - Oriental
marshall
who
flout
6. Never okay - all tenses of a word meaning all right
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7. Personal pronoun describing the deity are lowercase
criterion
his
manslaughter
reference works
8. Means to make sure or give confidence
assure
national
either
further
9. Capitalize if preceded by state name or when used in proper title. lowercase in other uses.
nicknames
Legislature
teenage
beside
10. Past tense when referring to executions or suicides
hung
complement
hanged
fiancee
11. Transportation vehicle
bus
premier
either...or - neither...nor
because
12. When referring to a group of men or men and women who attended a school
stationery
citizen
alumni
City Hall
13. The preferred term to describe adherents of Islam
person
muslims
hung
citizen
14. To stand still
on
stationary
complement
alumna
15. Kiss
buss
principle
flyer
biennial
16. More than two people look atcan be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
nicknames
one another
busses
firefighter - police officer
17. Serious crime - someone is a felon if the have been convicted of a felony whether or not they have spent time in confinement
collide - collision
arrest
figuratively
felony
18. For: peace - chemistry - literature - physics and physiology or medicine - the prize in economic studies is in memorial to alfred and should be referred to as such - ceremonies are held on Dec. 10 - Capitalize when with name - lowercase when not with
Nobel Prize
media
rock 'n' roll
badly
19. 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.
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
besides
was drowned
Fourth of July
20. Individual items reduced in number
fewer
liaison
bus
magazine names
21. Twice a year (same as biannual)
semiannual
premier
murder
ensure
22. Spelling for the noun that carries a badge and gun and verb that describes one who keeps things in order
titles
marshal
troop
its
23. A specific body of advisers heading executive departments for a president - king - governor - etc
hanged
among
Cabinet
misdemeanor
24. Legal term for slaying or killing
homicide
Nobel Prize
wrack
flier
25. Refers to inhabitants of states and cities
federal
mean
pore
resident
26. Man to be married
it's
amid
fiance
misdemeanor
27. 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
flout
composition titles
courtesy titles
buss
28. Plural form of a standard
in spite of
criteria
pour
Legislature
29. Correct spelling of a words that means to make fit for - or change to suit a new purpose
person
website
NAACP
accommodate
30. Correct spelling of an individual or group being sued or charged with a crime
muslims
compose
impostor
defendant
31. Correct spelling for a word that means a channel for communication between groups
liaison
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
because
refute
32. Use instead "survived by her husband" or "leaves her husband" not ______ of the late
among
widower
refute
native
33. The pronoun used for references to human beings and to animals with a name
forward
off of
semiannual
who
34. 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
mean
impostor
stanch
accommodate
35. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
century
because
premier
alumnae
36. Plural form of problem or turning point
people
farther
crises
his
37. Not amidst for a word that means surrounded by; in the middle of
subject
amid
farther
under way
38. Capitalize for architectural style or corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their name. Lowercase when used as an adjective.
misdemeanor
titles
federal
literally
39. Means at the side of
liaison
beside
muslims
because
40. Means in an exact sense
citizen
misdemeanor
literally
flaunt
41. For non essential clauses - where the pronoun is less necessary and use commas. use when referring to inanimate objects and to animals without a name
which
fiance
fewer
except
42. A listener or reader ____s something from the words
phase
No.
each
infer
43. Takes a singular verb
people
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
impostor
each
44. The correct word to introduce clauses - .e.g Jayne blocks the linebacker __ he should
primiere
over
off of
as
45. A member of a predominantly black Islamic sect in the United States. However the term is considered DEROGATORY by members of the sect - who call themselves muslims
aide
badly
Black muslim
alumnae
46. Implies a standard of average performance for a given group
norm
flaunt
either
wrack
47. Never forwards to explain moving toward a position ahead
biannual
semiannual
forward
No.
48. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
compliment
refute
rack
wrack
49. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause
since
off of
allege
City Council
50. Is the possessive of who
marshall
because
comprise
whose