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Monday, August 27, 2007

The 19 Rules for Good Riting


THE 19 RULES FOR GOOD RITING

1. Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent..
2. Just between you and I, case is important.
3. Verbs has to agree with their subject.
4. Watch out for irregular verbs which has cropped up into our language.
5. Don't use no double negatives.
6. A writer mustn't shift your point of view.
7. When dangling, don't use participles.
8. Join clauses good like a conjunction should.
9. And don't use conjunctions to start sentences.
10. Don't use a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it.
11. About sentence fragments.
12. In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep strings apart.
13. Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.
14. Its important to use apostrophe's right.
15. Don't abbrev.
16. Check to see if you any words out.
17. In my opinion I think that the author when he is writing should not get into the habit of making use of too many unnecessary words which he does not really need.
18. Then, of course, there's that old one: Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
19. Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

~~~~~~Dedicated to Miss Bee~~~~~~

10 comments:

Shaz said...

We've left you a little something over at our place x x x x

Anonymous said...

Guilty!

Unknown said...

If only the world would abide by these rules. (Don't count on it, right??)

Maggie Moo said...

I rilly love post, your funny.

Linda said...

Thanks for the laugh, but I'm guilty with most of them.

Carrie said...

Augh, my delicate sense of verbal propriety!! Or something :) I like 16 the best, I think!

Sandee said...

Excellent list of dos. What a nice thing to do for Miss Bee too. You are just the sweetest. :)

Anonymous said...

Hehe that's great!

Constance said...

heh-heh :)

Empress Bee (of the high sea) said...

you are such a funny girl! and i agree, a preposition is something you never end a sentence with!

smiles, bee