MuMURPHY’S LAWS ON WRITING (from carmen’s blog)
I can ignore all the other MURPHY’S LAWS on the blog but this one ON WRITING really takes the cake! hahaha! The journalist/writer/grammar geek in me (as dormant as she is on most occasions) can’t help it, I really love this!
enjoy!
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The 19 Rules for good Riting:
- Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
- Just between you and I, case is important.
- Verbs has to agree with their subject.
- Watch out for irregular verbs which has cropped up into our language.
- Don’t use no double negatives.
- A writer mustn’t shift your point of view.
- When dangling, don’t use participles.
- Join clauses good like a conjunction should.
- And don’t use conjunctions to start sentences.
- Don’t use a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it.
- About sentence fragments.
- In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep strings apart.
- Don’t use commas, which aren’t necessary.
- Its important to use apostrophe’s right.
- Don’t abbrev.
- Check to see if you any words out.
- 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.
- Then, of course, there’s that old one: Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
- Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.