Test Your Learning With This Year-End Quiz—
Dear Legal Writer,
Test your learning with this Year-End QUIZ—
I am feeling a bit wistful as we approach the TWO-full-years mark since I started writing this series to you on LinkedIn.
In honor of the anniversary, I thought we’d mix things up to see how well you’ve really been paying attention. 🙂
Here’s a little quiz based on a selection of my letters from 2024.
Please answer either true or false.
(Answer key is in the comments.)
QUIZ
1: When you add a comma at the very end of a quoted phrase that contained no comma in the original, you should put that comma inside the quotation marks.
A/ True
B/ False
2: “Plethora” is an ill-advised word to describe a bundle of positive things.
A/ True
B/ False
3: Vary glue words and garden variety words, but not substantive terms.
A/ True
B/ False
4: It is incorrect to write “a myriad of.”
A/ True
B/ False
5: “I resonate with this” makes no sense and is incorrect.
A/ True
B/ False
6: The whole is comprised of its parts.
A/ True
B/ False
7: It is unprofessional to use color photos in a formal legal brief.
A/ True
B/ False
8/ DVD’s is the correct way to express the plural form of DVD.
A/ True
B/ False
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Let me know how you do!!
💌 Amanda
P.S. For a full explanation of the rule on each question, you can run a word search in my database of past letters. They are all there—FREE—for you at Dear1L.com. (Check the “Posts” tab.)
P.P.S. In addition to my letters, I’ve shared 10 monthly newsletters for legal writers in 2024.
Each one has included 3 discrete legal-writing tips that I had not shared on LinkedIn—1 for briefwriters, 1 for 1L writers, and 1 for LinkedIn writers.
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