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Subject: UKNM: Re: Spilling
From: Piers Beckley
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:04:32 GMT

>From the Online Writers' List,
http://www.content-exchange.com/cx/html/owl.htm

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Subject: Internet Writing
From: Penny Khaled

Please follow these rules:

1.Don't abbrev.

2.Check to see if you any words out.

3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.

4.About sentence fragments.

5.When dangling, don't use participles.

6.Don't use no double negatives.

7.Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

8.Just between you and I, case is important.

9.Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.

10.Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.

11.Its important to use apostrophe's right.

12.It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.

13.Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.

14.Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should
begin with a capital and end with a period

15.Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.

16.In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas
to keep a string of items apart.

17.Watch out for irregular verbs that have creeped into our language.

18.Verbs has to agree with their subjects.

19.Avoid unnecessary redundancy.

20.A writer mustn't shift your point of view.

21.Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.

22.A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.

23.Avoid cliches like the plague.

For more help with Grammar, check out:
http://www.junketstudies.com/rulesofw/frules.html
http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/




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