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34 Cards in this Set
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Most important tool in punctuation |
A period |
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what punctuation should you never use and why? |
Explanation point-adds editorial comments |
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when are colons used? |
When theres a cap/full sentence semi colon- fact then example |
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What does an ellipsis do? |
quoting docs, separates |
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What do brackets do? |
used for editors notes |
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what do dashes do?> |
separates, pushes more adjectives out, if you use one there should be another one |
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what do hyphens do? |
takes two or more words that creates a solid new word, used in adjective form |
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what is an adjective? |
a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
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what is a pronoun |
a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g.,she, it, this ).
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what is an adverb? |
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite,then, there ).
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what is a participle? |
a word formed from a verb (e.g., going, gone, being, been ) and used as an adjective (e.g., working woman, burned toast ) or a noun (e.g., good breeding ). In English, participles are also used to make compound verb forms (e.g., is going, has been ).
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what is the word CAN a situation of? |
situation of capable |
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what is MAY a situation of? |
situation of permission |
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when dealing with chance what word should you always use? |
MIGHT |
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what word should you use instead of DUE? |
not cause and effect |
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what word should you use instead of FEEL? |
Thinks |
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What word should you use instead of OVER? |
More than |
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When should you use STATED? |
Documents quotes |
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when should you use said? |
Direct quotes |
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when should you use SAY/SAYS? |
Direct quotes paraphrasing |
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when should you use THAT |
it introduces a clause |
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When should you use LIKE? |
only when things are similar but try to use "such as" |
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what should you never do with a pronoun? |
never start a graph with a pronoun |
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What are journalist commonly refferred to as? |
4th estate of gov, we present the facts with prejudice |
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how long are graphs? |
1-4 sentences |
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what is fog index? |
tells you what education level your readers are @. 11:5 is 11th grade and 5 months |
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What are the 4 C's of creating a story? |
CONCEIVE a story COLLECT information CREATION CORRECT |
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What are hard ledes? |
inverted pyramid, element of when belongs in the lede with most important fact 35 words 3-4 elements "if it bleeds it ledes" |
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what are soft ledes? |
features/ delayed info |
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Impact lede |
mix between a hard and soft lede |
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what does ### mean? |
end of story |
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what should you if the story is more than one page? |
-more- |
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what is a slug? |
1-2 word title |
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what is nut graph? |
follows immediately after the end of the lede |
