TECHNICAL WRITING X JOURNALISM - 2ND MID

Helps readers understand the meaning and relationship of words, phrases, clauses and sentences.

• thesaurus
• Punctuations

• encyclopedia
• grammar book

is used to show possession or to indicate omitted letters.

• Apostrophe
• Comma
• Colon
• Semicolon

Enclose a word/s inserted by the writer or editor in a quotation.

• brackets.

• Use curly braces.
• Use parentheses.
• Use angle brackets.

Helps readers understand the writer's meaning and prevents ambiguity.

• Comma

• Ambiguity in expression
• Confusion in communication
• Vagueness in writing

TRUE OR FALSE: Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a sentence

• FALSE
• TRUE

can perform all the punctuation duties of linking, separating and enclosing.

• Grammar rules
• Sentence structure
• Language syntax
• Dash

The presence or absence of a hyphen can alter the meaning of the sentence.

• False
• Only in some cases
• Hyphens have no effect on meaning
• Hyphen

root word is a proper noun.

• Verb
• Adjective
• Common noun
• PREFIX

It is the verb form used to express a fact. Unlike other aspects the simple aspect does not make it clear whether the action is a complete action or a habitual action.

• Continuous aspect
• Perfect aspect
• Progressive aspect
• Simple aspect

It is used to describe an action that has taken place in the past and was completed.

• Future simple tense
• Present continuous tense
• Past perfect tense
• Past simple tense