Hi All!
Here are a few humorous grammar rules!


Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.

Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. Winston Churchill, corrected on
this error once, responded to the young man who corrected him by saying "Young
man, that is the kind of impudence up with which I will not put!

And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.

It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

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

Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.

Be more or less specific.

Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.

Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies endlessly over and over
again.

No sentence fragments.

Contractions aren't always necessary and shouldn't be used to excess so don't.

Foreign words and phrases are not always apropos.

Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly
superfluous and can be excessive.

All generalizations are bad.

Don't use no double negatives.

Avoid excessive use of ampersands & abbrevs., etc.

One-word sentences? Eliminate.

Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake (Unless they are as good as
gold).

The passive voice is to be ignored.

Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words, however, should
be enclosed in commas.

Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.

Don't overuse exclamation points!!!

Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.

Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth
earth-shaking ideas.

Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed and use
it correctly with words' that show possession.

Don't use too many quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate
quotations.. Tell me what you know."

If you've heard it once, you've heard it a billion times: Resist hyperbole; not
one writer in a million can use it correctly. Besides, hyperbole is always
overdone, anyway.

Puns are for children, not groan readers.

Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.

Who needs rhetorical questions? However, what if there were no rhetorical
questions?

Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

Avoid "buzz-words"; such integrated transitional scenarios complicate
simplistic matters.

People don't spell "a lot" correctly alot of the time.

Each person should use their possessive pronouns correctly.

All grammar and spelling rules have exceptions (with a few
exceptions)....Morgan's Law.

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

The dash - a sometimes useful punctuation mark - can often be overused - even
though it's a helpful tool some of the time.

Proofread carefully to make sure you don't repeat repeat any words.

In writing, it's important to remember that dangling sentences.


Cheers... Dallas

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