Anybody who knows me will know I hate incorrect usage of grammar and punctuation. Back in September I supplied a useful check-list – here are a few more.
- Employ the vernacular.
- It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions.
- Avoid archaeic spellings too.
- Don’t repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
- Be more or less specific.
- Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
- Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispeling and to catch typograhpical errers.
- Don’t repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
- Don’t be redundant.
- Eschew obfuscation.
- Don’t indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
- A writer must not shift your point of view.
- Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
- Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
- If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
- Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
- Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
- Always pick on the correct idiom.
- The adverb always follows the verb.
- If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing.
- Don’t use no double negatives.
- Don’t overuse exclamation marks!!
- Use the apostrophe in it’s proper place and omit it when its not needed.
- Ensure lists are properly numbered
- And always be sure to finish what