Tuesday, January 29, 2013

How to Write Good (a bit of English humor)

It always seems that grammar has to be taken so seriously.  Here is a short, humorous listing that tells you English people can have fun, too.  Thanks for the submission, Caitlin.

Challenge:  Find other fun grammatical ideas to post for others.  Look at sites like Grammarly...look for signs/jokes.  Resources are everywhere!


How to Write Good...

1.  Avoid alliteration.  Always.
2.  Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3.  Avoid cliche's like the plague.  (They're old hat.)
4.  Eschew abbreviations, etc.
5.  One should never generalize.
6.  Comparisons are as bad as cliche's.
7.  Be more or less specific.
8.  Sentence fragments?  Eliminate.
9.  Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
10.  Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
11.  Who needs rhetorical questions?

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