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News Copy Editing
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News Copy Editing
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25 Questions

1. Antecedent

2. Use of he/she

3. Commas replace (headlines)

4. Possessive case

5. Side-saddle head

6. Hammer head

7. em dash

8. Dangling modifiers

9. Max sentence length

10. Restrictive modifier

11. That

12. Drop heads

13. Pronoun/antecedent agreement

14. Four rules of subjunctive case

15. Noun strings

16. Objective case

17. How many prepositional phrases per sentence?

18. Nominative case

19. Kicker heads

20. Straightforward headline

21. Squinting modifiers

22. Passive voice

23. Label head

24. Whom - Him/her

25. Smother verb (example)