26 Golden Rules for Writing Well
- 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.
- Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
- Don’t use commas, that aren’t necessary.
- Its important to use apostrophe’s right.
- It’s better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.
- Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.
- Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop
- Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.
- In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart.
- Watch out for irregular verbs that have creeped into our language.
- Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
- Avoid unnecessary redundancy.
- A writer mustn’t shift your point of view.
- Don’t write a run-on sentence you’ve got to punctuate it.
- A preposition isn’t a good thing to end a sentence with.
- Avoid cliches like the plague.
- 1 final thing is to never start a sentence with a number.
- Always check your work for accuracy and completeness.
~Author Unknown
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5 comments ↓
Love it! I think most grammarians would agree that it’s acceptable to end sentences with a preposition or split infinitives, though.
Shauna: I totally agree with you on those two points, though this little tongue-in-cheek list does say that it’s “usually” best to avoid doing so. Still, using the “correct” approach can sometimes leave you with a sentence that sounds too stuffy. That’s when the more casual split infinitive or end-of-sentence preposition just sound better.
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Where is rule 26???
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Ah, that Rule 26 is a stumper, isn’t it?
Clue: Read Rule 25 again.