UoN: Communication Skills In-Class Practice (Chapter 1)..

The symbolic representations of a facial expression using punctuation marks, numbers and letters from a keyboard, usually written to express a person's feelings or mood is referred to as ...

• abbreviations.

• acronyms.

• emoticons.

• shortcuts.

When a phrase or word is shortened to a word or letters, it means that we are using an .......

• acronyms.

• abbreviation.

• initialisms.

• emoticon.

Abbreviations are divided into TWO types, and they are .......

• initialism and acronym.

• initialism & shortcut.

• acronyms and shortcut.

• intialoism and emoticon.

When a word is abbreviated to its initials and those initials are said as individual letters, this is known as an .......

• initialism.

• shortcut.

• summary.

• acronym.

United Kingdom to (UK), Royal Oman Police to (ROP) and Untied States of America (USA) are examples of using .........

• acronyms.

• beginnings.

• shortcuts.

• initialisms.

(COVID-19) for  Coronavirus disease of 2019, (AIDS) Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and (NASA)National Aeronautics and Space Administration are examples of using .....

• acronyms.

• summarization.

• initialisms.

• none of the above.

It is a type of abbreviations which also use initials, but those initials are pronounced as a word rather than saying the individual initials or letters. This is known as .....

• acronyms.

• initialism.

• summary

• shortcuts.

"2moro" is an abbreviation for ........

"lol" is an abbreviation for ........

• laugh out low

• loud on laugh.

• laugh out loud.

• laugh on leg.

These initials "Bcc" in an email stand for ......

• Blind Car Copy.

• Blind Cash Copy.

• Big Carbon Copy.

• Blind Carbon Copy.