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BuzzFeed House Style Copyediting Quiz

The _newfound sense of freedom_ belongs to Kim, rather than the fans; the first and third answers have a misplaced modifier. _Water park_ is two words. The _state_ in _Washington state_ is lowercase.

Now with a newfound sense of freedom, Kim Kardashian opened up a water park in Washington state.

Pick the sentence a BuzzFeed copy editor would approve of.

Per AP style, it's _daylight saving time_ (no hyphen, not [_savings_](https://twitter.com/styleguide/status/1502372282345267201)). _Senators_ is always lowercase (but if it precedes multiple senators' names, we would abbreviate as _Sens._).

Everyone was surprised by the Senate passing permanent daylight saving time — especially the senators.

Which of these would you approve of?

If you only have a single uncle, he's in a group of one, so the name should be between a set of commas. _Antony Blinken_'s name does not have an H in it. _Disney World_ is two words, unlike _Disneyland_. _Administration_ in the phrase _Biden administration_ should be lowercased and with three _i_'s.

I’m taking my only uncle, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to Disney World after his tenure in the Biden administration.

We'll use an en dash for the compound modifier _Academy Award–winning_ when it comes before a name. Chloé's name takes an accent mark over the E. No need to add a hyphen to the noun _reboot_, and we'll go without a comma before the name of the hit show because it's not the only hit show out there.

Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao's next project is a reboot of the hit show _Growing Pains_.

What sentence are we going to use in a BuzzFeed story?

Italicize _SNL_ as the name of a TV show. Leave the question mark outside of the quotes since this is a question; otherwise, we're indicating the question mark was part of the branding.

You’re telling me the guy from _SNL_ got a branding that says “Kim”?

Last one: Which sentence is punctuated appropriately?

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This Quiz Will See If You're Clever Enough To Be A BuzzFeed Copy Editor

These questions rely on the BuzzFeed Style Guide, which you can study here.

This Quiz Will See If You're Clever Enough To Be A BuzzFeed Copy Editor

These questions rely on the BuzzFeed Style Guide, which you can study here.

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