Maar ik wil ze toch graag in mijn eigen blog met jullie delen, omdat ze hilarisch én handig zijn!
Dus: leer, geniet, print uit en hang op! ^_^
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Here are several very important but often forgotten rules of English:
- Always avoid annoying alliteration.
- Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
- And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.
- Avoid clichés like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
- Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
- Employ the vernacular.
- Keep tabs on the use of idioms.
- Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
- Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
- It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
- Contractions aren’t necessary and shouldn’t be used.
- Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
- Only idiots make generalizations.
- Also too, never, ever, use repetitive redundancies.
- A writer must not shift your point of view.
- Eliminate quotations. As Emerson once said: “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
- Profanity sucks.
- Corect speling is esential.
- 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.
- Jims grammar book’s say you shouldnt use apostrophe’s with plural’s, but theyre proper with possessive’s and contraction’s.
- Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
- Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of ten or more words, to their antecedents.
- Just between you and I, case is important.
- Kill all exclamation points!!!
- Don’t use no double negatives.
- If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly.
- Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.
- Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
- Puns are for children, not for groan-ups.
- The adverb always follows the verb.
- 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.
- Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
- If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
- Who needs rhetorical questions?
- Don’t be redundant; don’t more use words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
- A subject should always agree with their predicate.
- Do not add emphasis UNLESS it is really, really necessary!
- Their are too many people who mix up they’re adjectives and pronouns with there contractions.
- Avoid run-on sentences, these are sentences that are strung together, they should be separated by periods.
- While sentence fragments are also bad.
- Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
- Try not two confuse the numeral too with its preposition and adverb homonyms to many times.
- Use an apostrophe with “it” in it’s proper place (as a contraction) and omit it when its not needed (as a possessive).
- Eschew obfuscation.
- To loose track of proper word usage will make people think you have a screw lose.
- Only use question marks with questions? How will anyone otherwise know you are asking a question.
- Sentences without verbs nonsense.
- Should have subject, too.
