Opinion Section Finals (unless someone wants to edit?)

Amanda, Jesse Cell Phone Editorial Final

Two Lunches Final by Jesse

Josh-Murder Story Final

Final Amanda Murder

stuff 4 josh! it is your edit.

josh-edit from jesse

Edit 4 Jean

vilpin edit

cell phone editorial

Jesse and Amanda cell-phone editorial

I don’t have spell check on my computer, so you might want to run through it.

P.s. I pretty much wrote a new editorial, keeping the same overall concept.  You can keep some components from the original, which I also included with my final draft.

Possible Titles:

Cell Phone Ban Receives Top Priority
Unsuccessful Cell Phone Enforcement Leads to Desperate Measures
Easing up on Cell Phones
If you Can’t Beat Them, Join Them

cells

editorialcellphones

Grammar Notes

Data= plural
Datum= singular

Criteria= plural
Criterion= singular

Media= plural
Medium= singular

Multiple digits in a number= plural has no apostrophe. 1990s

For words that end in “ss”, add an “apostrophe s”.  Unless the next word begins with an “s”, in which case add an apostrophe without an “s”.

If a proper name ends in an “s”, add an apostrophe at the end for the possesive form.

Attorney general= singular
Attorneys general= plural
Attorney general’s= singular possessive
Attorneys general’s= plural possessive

For two different subjects (Bill and Marcy) with only one object (house) only put an “apostrophe s” after the last subject (Bill and Marcy’s).
For two different subjects (Bill and Marcy) with MULTIPLE objects (parents) put an “apostrophe s” after the both subjects (Bill’s and Marcy’s).

Citizens band radio or Scholars Academy are not possessive and therefore don’t bear the “apostrophe s”

Amanda murder edit

mom-murder-editorial2

Brief grammar notes

Re-enter/re-educated must have a hyphen, as well as words whose meanings would change without the hyphen (re-sign).

two lunches

two-lunches-revised

Grammar

Weiss is going to become a Ninja of hand-calling.

When two nouns are connected by “or”, the adjective that follows refers to the noun closest.

“Different than”, not “Different from”.

Exfoliate-  Pore cleansing
Defoliate- Leaf remova

Materiel- French term refering to war technology.

One and the same- idiomatic expression meaning two things that are equal.

Subjunctive- Also known as the counter-factual, the subjunctive is used if there is a doubt. 
e.g. If I were rich, I would have a lot of money.  However, I am not. 
If there once was doubt, but the doubt has been removed, it would revert to the past.
e.g. If I was broke before the promotion, I’m most certainly not now.
If there was a typo, it’s already been fixed.

Use whoever as a subject and whomever as the object.  However, if a sentence need both a subject and an object, the subject takes precedent.