15 Random Items from Newsroom 1-5

Andy Warner is one of the coaches who __________ with the training program.
1. help
2. helps
No other criteria for the program ____________ been spelled out.
1. has
2. have
Neither Florida State nor Florida __________ included.
1. is
2. are
It's a state where __________ swim teams dominate.
1. nationally renown
2. nationally-renown
3. nationally renowned
4. nationally-renowned
He __________ a job as a one-man news crew for a Panama City TV station
1. wangled
2. wrangled
What a week. I feel as if I've really been through the __________ .
1. ringer
2. wringer
3. wigwam
I can't wait until Saturday morning, when I can __________ in bed for hours.
1. lay
2. lie
3. create festive party favors
Your pathetic insults have no __________ on her.
1. affect
2. effect
3. Afflect
Hohmeister is the __________ .
1. front runner
2. front-runner
3. frontrunner
4. gunrunner
Don't you just love the phrase "wholly owned subsidiary"?
1. Insert hyphen between "wholly" and "owned:"
  
  "wholly-owned subsidiary"?
2. Move question mark inside quote marks:
  
  "wholly owned subsidiary?"
3. Leave everything as is.
Lightsey, Meisburg and Maddox each _______ cited the requirement.
1. has
2. have
It will be rebuilt as a football-shaped __________ of two one-way roads.
1. ellipse
2. ellipsis
Identify the problem with this sentence:

Set 10 years later than "Phantom Menace," Jedi-in-training Anakin Skywalker and his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, are called in to protect the young politician Padme.
1. The opening, "Set 10 years later than 'Phantom Menace,' is a misplaced modifier.
2. "10" should be "ten"
3. There should be a comma after "young politician."
4. The middle of the sentence should read:
  "Anakin Skywalker, a Jedi in training, and his mentor..."
Identify the part of this sentence that contains redundancy and should be shortened:
1. Agents said Friday they were
2. in the process of pursuing leads
3. that players knew of the abuse.
The ladybug is __________.
1. miniscule
2. minuscule
Is this new experience taking us into ___________ waters?
1. uncharted
2. unchartered
Are we keeping up with _________?
1. the Joneses
2. the Jones
3. the Jones'
Is that grammar trophy sitting on the _________ above the fireplace?
1. mantle
2. mantel
Do the suspects' alibis ___________.
1. jibe
2. gibe
Do your spoken words leap from your ___________?
1. vocal cords
2. vocal chords
She got her _____________.
1. just deserts
2. just desserts
Shall we agree ______________?
1. in principle
2. in principal
Republicans think Jeb Bush is a ___________.
1. shoe-in
2. shoo-in
The church's new ___________ window took two years to make.
1. stain-glass
2. stained glass
3. stained-glass
I waited a ____________.
1. half hour
2. half-hour
Marvin is my ______________.
1. half-brother
2. half brother
Impatient as always, by now he was starting to ________ at the bit.
1. chomp
2. champ
Real estate agents have _________ in on the schools' letter grades.
1. homed
2. honed
When the power failed, the lights went out and the electric instruments fell silent. After a moment of confusion, the cast and the orchestra began to sing ____________.
1. a capella
2. a cappella
What some Catholics see as an anti-Catholic backlash is largely ___________ of their own failure to deal firmly with criminals in their midst.
1. born
2. borne
He returned this week from a trip to the University of Maryland, a school __________ had offered him a full ride.
1. that
2. which
Leading the list of donors _________ labor unions.
1. is
2. are
Ballack's play has been _____________.
1. hit and miss
2. hit-and-miss
No __________ than 20 prime-time programs fit under the canopy of crime and punishment
1. fewer
2. less
Do we really have "liberty and justice for ______
1. all?"
2. all"?
___________than 100 spectators watched Saturday's game.
1. Fewer
2. Less
__________ dollars in the paycheck means _________ money to spend.
1. fewer, fewer
2. less, less
3. fewer, less
4. less, fewer
His staff has _________ over the details.
1. pored
2. poured
His staff has challenged what _________ considered inaccurate statistics.
1. it
2. they
It would be a mistake to conclude that NBC's "Nightly News," ABC's "World News Tonight" or the "CBS Evening News" ______ headed for extinction soon.
1. is
2. are
That would get ____________ attention.
1. people's
2. peoples'
Give this quiz to ___________ needs it.
1. whoever
2. whomever
It was a new and difficult road, which he _______ well.
1. tread
2. trod
Instead, it's a game of ________________.
1. one upmanship
2. one-upmanship
Headline: "18 months in jail __________ no trial"
1. yield
2. yields
Buddy, you goofed up _________.
1. big time
2. big-time
At last I'm working _________.
1. full time
2. full-time
Make sure those photos are ___________, not color.
1. black and white
2. black-and-white
He likes his eggs ____________.
1. lightly peppered
2. lightly-peppered

15 Random Items from Newsroom 1-5

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