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February 16th, 2010 — Grammar & Spelling, Just for Fun
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
If anyone knows who wrote this, let me know. I’d love to give proper credit.
February 4th, 2010 — Just for Fun
Recipe for Writing a Paragraph
Ingredients
1 topic sentence
1 main idea
Handful of supporting details
5-7 sentences
2-4 sentence variations
Active verbs
Strong nouns
Pinch of adjectives and adverbs
1 closing sentence
Directions
- Prepare a topic sentence that introduces the main idea.
- In a medium-size paragraph, combine main idea and supporting details into 5-7 sentences.
- As flavors begin to develop, drain off excess “to be” verbs such as is, am, are, was, and were before stirring in a generous helping of active verbs and strong nouns. Replace several subject-verb sentence starters with more interesting sentence variations.
- Arrange sentences neatly on a bed of lined paper, moving sentences and words around to achieve the desired effect.
- Garnish the paragraph with just enough adjectives and adverbs to add flavor and color.
- Wrap up the paragraph with a satisfying closing sentence.
- Misspellings and incorrect punctuation will add bitterness, so sweeten the paragraph by making necessary adjustments.
- Sample the composition. If it’s too thick, remove excess words or phrases. Substitute spicier words for repeated or flavorless ones. If the paragraph lacks seasoning, pepper it with a few more vivid words to taste.
- Serve it to several hungry readers and adjust the arrangement or ingredients as per their suggestions.
Copyright © 2010 by Kim Kautzer. All rights reserved.
If this recipe is to your liking, you might also enjoy A Recipe for Writing Fiction by Beth Bernobich.
February 3rd, 2010 — Bad Signage Humor, Just for Fun
Methinks Best Auto Repair is in need of Best Spelling Repair. Seems that poor Mr. Best never learned the “rule of silent e.”
Hmmm…but suppose he really does change lubs and do tun ups. I’m no auto mechanic, so what do I know?
Maybe the joke’s on me.
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Stop by every 1st and 3rd Wednesday for a peek into the world of spelling, punctuation, or grammar gone wrong!
January 20th, 2010 — Bad Signage Humor, Just for Fun
Serious homophone issues—two good reasons why you should ALWAYS give the bakery written instructions!
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Stop by every 1st and 3rd Wednesday for a peek into the world of spelling, punctuation, or grammar gone wrong!
Photos used by permission of Jen at CakeWrecks
January 6th, 2010 — Bad Signage Humor, Just for Fun
This is what you need when your grand opening isn’t quite grand enough.
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Stop by every 1st and 3rd Wednesday for a peek into the world of spelling, punctuation, or grammar gone wrong!
December 30th, 2009 — Grammar & Spelling, Just for Fun
A great example of why it’s best not to let kids rely on spell check!
Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker’s
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we’re lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault’s with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word’s fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw’s are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.
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Copyright © Jerry Zar, 29 June 1992
Jerrold H. Zar
Graduate School
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
jhzar@niu.edu
Title suggested by Pamela Brown.
Based on opening lines suggested by Mark Eckman.
By the author’s count, 123 of the 225 words are incorrect (although all words are correctly spelled).
Published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results, January/February 1994, page 13. Reprinted (“by popular demand”) in the Journal of Irreproducible Results, Vol. 45, No. 5/6, 2000, page 20.
Journal of Irreproducible Results, Box 234, Chicago Heights IL 60411 USA.
December 16th, 2009 — Bad Signage Humor, Just for Fun
I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful Christmas season! Here are a couple of cake gems to sweeten the holidays a little bit more.
Holiday’s Happe would make more sense provided that someone named Holiday owned a Happe. However, that sounds a lot more like a phrase from a Dr. Seuss book than a snowman cake!
I believe this cake is actually telling the recipient to marry someone named Christnos.
Marry Christnos, everyone!
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Stop by every 1st and 3rd Wednesday for a peek into the world of spelling, punctuation, or grammar gone wrong!
Photos used by permission of Jen at CakeWrecks
December 2nd, 2009 — Bad Signage Humor, Just for Fun
Typos sharpened, please?
We’ve all seen unnecessary apostrophes, right? But here’s a new one: adding commas where even apostrophes don’t belong. And as if that weren’t bad enough, they’ve graced us with a glaring misspelling as a bonus! Awfully generous, don’t you think?
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Stop by every 1st and 3rd Wednesday for a peek into the world of spelling, punctuation, or grammar gone wrong!
November 18th, 2009 — Bad Signage Humor, Just for Fun
I hope everyone enjoys their turkey with stuffink next week!
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Stop by every 1st and 3rd Wednesday for a peek into the world of spelling, punctuation, or grammar gone wrong!
November 4th, 2009 — Bad Signage Humor, Just for Fun
Ah, I see Yoda’s been at it again . . .
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Stop by every 1st and 3rd Wednesday for a peek into the world of spelling, punctuation, or grammar gone wrong!
