1. Don't abbrev.
2. Check to see if you any words out.
3. Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.
4. About sentence fragments.
5. When dangling, don't use participles.
6. Don't use no double negatives.
7. Avoid alliteration. Always.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
9. Contractions aren't necessary and won't be as effective.
10. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
11. One should never generalize.
12. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
13. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
14. Be more or less specific.
15. Understatement is always best and generalizations must always be eliminated.
16. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
17. Simplify! How? Eliminate one-word sentences.
18. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
19. The passive voice is to be avoided.
20. Go out of your way to avoid colloquialisms, ya' know?
21. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
22. Who needs rhetorical questions?
23. Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
24. Just between you and I, case is important.
25. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
26. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.
27. Its important to use apostrophe's right.
28. It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.
29. Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.
30. Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized.
31. a sentence should begin with a capital and end with a period
32. Use hyphens in compound-words, not just where two-words are related.
33. In letters compositions reports and things like that use commas to keep a string of items apart.
34. Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our language.
35. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
36. Avoid unnecessary redundancy.
37. Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.
38. A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.
39. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat)
40. If in doubt, ask Lila if it's rite!
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2. Check to see if you any words out.
3. Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.
4. About sentence fragments.
5. When dangling, don't use participles.
6. Don't use no double negatives.
7. Avoid alliteration. Always.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
9. Contractions aren't necessary and won't be as effective.
10. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
11. One should never generalize.
12. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
13. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
14. Be more or less specific.
15. Understatement is always best and generalizations must always be eliminated.
16. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
17. Simplify! How? Eliminate one-word sentences.
18. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
19. The passive voice is to be avoided.
20. Go out of your way to avoid colloquialisms, ya' know?
21. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
22. Who needs rhetorical questions?
23. Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
24. Just between you and I, case is important.
25. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
26. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.
27. Its important to use apostrophe's right.
28. It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.
29. Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.
30. Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized.
31. a sentence should begin with a capital and end with a period
32. Use hyphens in compound-words, not just where two-words are related.
33. In letters compositions reports and things like that use commas to keep a string of items apart.
34. Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our language.
35. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
36. Avoid unnecessary redundancy.
37. Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.
38. A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.
39. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat)
40. If in doubt, ask Lila if it's rite!
___________
___________
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