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Grammer Made Easy In 23 Steps
- Avoid alliteration. Always.
- Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
- Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old
hat.)
- Employ the vernacular.
- Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
- Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are
unnecessary.
- It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
- Contractions aren't necessary
- Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
- One should never generalize.
- Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson
once said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you
know."
- Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
- Don't be redundant; don't use more words than
necessary; it's highly superfluous.
- Profanity sucks.
- Be more or less specific.
- Understatement is always best.
- Exaggeration is a billion times worse than
understatement.
- One-word sentences? Eliminate.
- Analogies in writing are like feathers on a
snake.
- The passive voice is to be avoided.
- Go around the barn at high noon to avoid
colloquialisms.
- Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be
derailed.
- Who needs rhetorical questions?
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- Don't abbrev.
- Check to see if you any words out.
- Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs
correct.
- About sentence fragments.
- When dangling, don't use participles.
- Don't use no double negatives.
- Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
- Just between you and I, case is important.
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