GRAMMER MADE EASY IN TWENTY-THREE STEPS
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HOW TO RITE RITE
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. Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
8. Just between you and I, case is important.
9. Join clauses good, like a conjunction
should.
10. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.
11. Its important to use apostrophe's right.
12. It's better not to unnecessarily split
an infinitive.
13. Never leave a transitive verb just
lay there without an object.
14. Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized.
also a sentence should
begin with a capital
and end with a period
16. Use hyphens in compound-words, not
just in any two-word phrase.
17. In letters compositions reports and
things like that we use commas
to keep a string of
items apart.
19. Watch out for irregular verbs which
have creeped into our language.
20. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
21. Avoid unnecessary redundancy.
22. A writer mustn't shift your point of
view.
23. Don't write a run-on sentence you've
got to punctuate it.
24. A preposition isn't a good thing to
end a sentence with.
25. Avoid cliches like the plague.
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