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Name the journalistic form a short passage belongs to and the signal that decides it.
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An invented city paper prints: "The flood control project on Ilaya Street starts June 3, Mayor Rosalinda Vergara said at yesterday's briefing." Which journalistic form is this?
A sample school paper prints: "Barangay Ilaya Falcons beat the Sto. Nino Tigers, 68-65, at the division meet last night, the tournament office said." Which journalistic form is this?
An invented provincial daily prints: "A rice dryer built at Bicol State University cut drying time from two days to eight hours in field tests, the research team said." Which form is this?
A sample paper prints, unsigned: "The council must reopen the Malinao health station. Closing it saved PHP 90,000 and cost residents a two-hour trip." Which form is this?
An invented town weekly prints: "Every dawn, Aling Perla Sarmiento sweeps the covered court before the young runners arrive. She has done it for eleven years." Which form is this?
An invented daily prints a signed column by a nurse, Teodoro Alcantara, urging the provincial hospital to buy two ambulances. A note says the views are his own. Which form is this?
A sample report reads: "Fish died along three kilometers of Talisay Bay, and oxygen in the water was low, provincial fisheries officer Ana Lim said." Which signal marks it as news rather than editorial?
An invented paper prints: "The barangay spent PHP 1.2 million on the new footbridge, the treasurer said. It opened to students on Tuesday." What is the writer doing here?
A sample column reads: "PHP 800,000 for a canteen roof while the science room still has no running water. The council owes this school an answer." What is the writer doing here?
An invented lead reads: "Classes were suspended in three Sorsogon towns yesterday as Typhoon Wilma neared, the disaster office said." Which signal shows the lead was written for timeliness?
A sample story about last week's storm opens: "At four in the morning, Mang Tonio mends his torn net by lamplight, as his father did before him." Which signal marks the story as a feature?
An invented sports report reads: "The call in the final second was correct, league commissioner Nestor Padua said after reviewing the video." Whose judgment does the sentence carry?
A sample column reads: "The province froze the research grant in March and has said nothing since. That silence is the real failure here." Whose judgment does the passage carry?
An invented daily prints: "Testing by a state university team found lead below the safe limit in all six barangay wells, the team's report said." Which journalistic form is this?
A sample sports column ends: "Benching Bantay cost the Falcons the title, and the coach still has not explained it." Which signal shows the writer is arguing, not reporting?
An invented city paper prints: "The motor pool opened a charging station for eighteen electric tricycles this week, the supplier and the city engineer said." Which form is this?
An editorial states the newspaper's own stand on an issue rather than a source's opinion.
Three days after a school fire, a sample story follows one Grade 8 pupil back to her burned classroom and gives no new official figures. Which journalistic form is this?
A sample passage reads: "Enrollment is up, but our classrooms are not. Every parent in this town already knows it." Which signal shows the passage is not a news report?
An invented paper covers a campus trial of a corn dryer. Which sentence argues rather than reports?
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