How well do you know our Style Guide? Part 3
How Well Do You Know Our Style Guide?
Test your knowledge of our Style Guide with this engaging quiz! Designed for writers and editors, this quiz will challenge you on the essential elements of our guidelines.
Each question is multiple-choice, covering topics such as:
- Acronyms
- Writing styles
- Grammar rules
- Terminology
When using the acronym SAPS in your article, do you first need to write it out?
No
Yes
How do you write the seasons in an article? In upper case or lower case?
Upper case
Lower case
You first write it in upper case and thereafter in lower case.
What is the most common use for a semi-colon?
To use it with conjunctions.
It is a handy alternative to the comma.
It is to separate two separate clauses.
Please indicate the correct meaning of the words sewage and sewerage.
Sewage is the stuff that comes from your toilet called sewerage.
Sewage is the stuff that is in the sewerage pipes. Sewerage pipes carry the sewage.
Sewage is lumpy and sewerage flows.
What is the difference between theft and robbery - when writing about it in your story?
Theft is when property is stolen without the use of violence. Robbery involves violence or the threat of violence.
These are interchangeable and can be used together in a story to outline what happened.
Theft can also be also be violent, eg, stealing from a shop while having a weapon on you.
All of the above is correct.
Which is the correct way of writing under 18 when referring to age in sport or school articles?
U/18
U.18
U.18
U18
While note whilst. Amid not amidst. Among not amongst. Who not whom.
True
False
Please select the correct way of writing this word.
Wellbeing
Well-being
Well being
We write years in date - only mention the year if you are no referring the current year. True or false?
False
True
This is not in the Style Guide, however it needs to be. What is the correct way of writing this 'term'.
Zama-zama's
Zama-zamas
Zama zamas
Zama zammases
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