Sub-Editing: the ins and outs of why compliments are not complements, but are they complimentary?

 This term has focused on two things in my Writing For The Media module: feature writing, and Sub-Editing.
When we first started sub-editing, I was like:

   
 aaaaaaaand then I learnt that basically everything I had been taught throughout my entire school career was basically bogus and entirely incorrect and there was in fact a whole other way that journalists use grammar in their writing. So then I was like:

And then it continued, and despite getting the hang of it quite quickly, I was forced to take a step back, listen properly, and then admit to myself: