How well do you know our Style Guide? Part 3

When using the acronym SAPS in your article, do you first need to write it out?

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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