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hillsbororiver:
Here are several very important but often forgotten rules of English:

•Avoid alliteration. Always.

•Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

•Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)

•Employ the vernacular.

•Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.

•Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.

•It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

•Contractions aren't necessary.

•Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.

•One should never generalize.

•Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

•Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

•Don't be redundant. Don't more use words than necessary. It's highly superfluous.

•Be more or less specific.

•Understatement is always best.

•Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

•One-word sentences? Eliminate.

•Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.

•The passive voice is to be avoided.

•Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.

•Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.

•Who needs rhetorical questions?

iris:




Iris

Beloved:
Yes Joe Grammar is important but the fundamentala can get in the way …the QWERTY key board\

Use the song  (My Bonny lies over the ocean )

My typist’s away on vacation&
My typzt’s away bg the seaz/
She lefft Me do alz thw typigg
O bRing bacck my tpyitz to me
Md Ttypiztm Is aw-py on vaaction3
 A fact gou can eaxily see
IT’ odd how thes letirs get mixed up
Oj Bring bax my typissed to me


I am such a bad typist that when writing some of my own business letters or application I used to put on the bottom

CLC/mtf  (the mtf was not my secretary’s initalials  it stood for “my two fingers”

I have to kearn to write like  GodSown 1 does some time…it that text message lingo or   “short talk”  It is Cool  :D :D :D and I can understand what you are saying

Sometimes I forget grammar language is living and changing all the time .....who are those guys making these rules???

Should it be How to write Welll  ???   ;D ;D ;D  mtf



Beloved 

gmik:
Joe & Beloved-  How great to read this Sunday morning!!!
I love English & languagey type stuff!!!

bough
rough
though
thought

 ;D ;D

Deborah-Leigh:

..and I thought I was speaking and writing English!  ;D  ;D

Never too old to learn!  :D 8)

What about Smiles? Where do they fit? ;D :D

Good one Joe!

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

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