Editing Language

Which of the following terms are not editing language terms?

• Ambiguity

• Generalisations

• Redundancy

• Anthology

A Paradox is when a situation is described that is very strange or impossible because of two opposing qualities. When two words are combined with an opposite meaning however it is called a .......

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

Identify the language errors in the following passage:

Rachel is very smart, she began reading when she was three years old.

• Apostrophe mistake

• Separate the clauses into two sentences,

• Pronoun error

• No subject verb agreement

Identify the language error:

Every girl must bring their own book.

• Pronoun disagreement

• Ending a sentence in a preposition

• Parenthesis

• Split infinitive

Where do you use dashes?

• To separate appositives

• Introduce emphasis

• Introduce explanations

• Break up sentences

When changing this:

I got up late this morning and I didn't have time for breakfast.

into this:

I got up late this morning, I didn't have time for breakfast.

We call it a.....

• Comma Splice

• Missing comprehension

Hear and here are examples of.....?

• Homograph

• Homophone

" Why did the blonde keep staring at the juice box? Cause it said CONCENTRATEd blend."

Blonde jokes are examples of generalizations.

• True

• False

Select an example of malapropism:

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"Walking down the street, the streetlights came on."

This is an example of....

• Dangling Participle

• Misrelated Participle

• None of the above