1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. 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!
3. And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction. 신용카드현금화
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies endlessly over and over again
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren’t always necessary and shouldn’t be used to excess so don’t.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not always apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous
and can be excessive
14. All generalizations are bad. 신용카드현금화
15. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
16. Don’t use no double negatives.
17. Avoid excessive use of ampersands & abbrevs., etc.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate. 신용카드현금화
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake (Unless they are as good as gold).
20. The passive voice is to be ignored.
21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words, however, should be enclosed in commas.
22. Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.
23. Don’t overuse exclamation points!!!
24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth-shaking ideas
26. Use the apostrophe in it’s proper place and omit it when its not needed and use it correctly with words’ that show possession.
27. Don’t use too many quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “I hate quotations..
Tell me what you know.”
28. 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. 신용카드현금화
29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
31. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
32. Who needs rhetorical questions? However, what if there were no rhetorical questions?
33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
34. Avoid “buzz-words”; such integrated transitional scenarios complicate simplistic
matters
35. People don’t spell “a lot” correctly alot of the time.
36. Each person should use their possessive pronouns correctly
37. All grammar and spelling rules have exceptions (with a few exceptions)….
Morgan’s Law.
38. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
39. The dash – a sometimes useful punctuation mark – can often be overused – 신용카드현금화
even though it’s a helpful tool some of the time.
40. Proofread carefully to make sure you don’t repeat repeat any words.
41. In writing, it’s important to remember that dangling sentences.
41. When numbering in a written document, check your numbering system carefully.
42. It is important to use italics for emphasis sparingly.
43. In good writing, for good reasons, under normal circumstances, whenever you can, use prepositional phrases in limited numbers and with great caution.
44. Avoid going out on tangents unrelated to your subject — not the subject of a
sentence — that’s another story (like the stories written by Ernest Hemingway,
who by the way wrote the great fisherman story The Old Man and the Sea).
45. Complete sentences. Like rule 10. 신용카드현금화
46. Unless you’re a righteous expert don’t try to be too cool with slang to which you’re not hip.
47. If you must use slang, avoid out-of-date slang. Right on!
48. You’ll look poorly if you misuse adverbs.
49. Use the ellipsis ( . . . ) to indicate missing . . .
50. Use brackets to indicate that you [ not Shakespeare, for example ] are giving
people [ in your class ] information so that they [ the people in your class ] know
about whom you are speaking. But do not use brackets when making these
references [ to other authors ] excessively.
51. Note: People just can’t stomach too much use of the colon.
52. Between good grammar and bad grammar, good grammar is the best.
53. There are so many great grammar rules that I can’t decide between them.
54. In English, unlike German, the verb early in the sentence, not later, should be placed.
55. When you write sentences, shifting verb tense is bad.
A carrot, an egg, and a cup of coffee… Believe me, you will never
look at a cup of coffee the same way again.
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life, and
how things were so hard for her. She said she did not know how she
was going to make it, and felt like she just wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and
struggling… It seemed that when one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother calmly took her into the kitchen. She filled three pots with water, and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil.
In the first pot, her mother placed carrots; in the second she placed eggs; and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
In about 20 minutes, she turned off the burners. She then fished the carrots out and placed
them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them into a bowl. Then she ladled the
coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, “Tell me, what do you see?”
“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied.
Her mother brought her over closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft.
The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it.
After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.
Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee… The daughter smiled, as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, “What does it mean, mother?”
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the exact same adversity … boiling
water. And each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However after being subjected to the boiling
water, it softened and became weak, more pliable.
The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid-like interior, but after
sitting in the boiling water, its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
“Which are you?” she asked her daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
Think of this: ‘Which am I?’
Am I the carrot that seems strong… but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft
and lose my strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid
spirit… but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship, or some other trial, have I become
hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same… but on the inside am I bitter and tough,
with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water… the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor.
If you ARE like the bean… when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.
When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest… do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?
Count your blessings, not your problems……