Tips to improve your writing
1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Be more or less specific.
3. Proofread carefully to see if you words out or mispeld something.
4. A writer must not shift your point of view.
5. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
6. Remember to never split an infinitive.
7. Contractions aren't necessary.
8. Foreign words and phrases are not a propos.
9. One should never generalize.
10. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
11. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
12. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
13. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
14. Understatement is always best.
15. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
16. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
17. The passive voice is to be avoided.
18. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
19. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
20. Who needs rhetorical questions?
21. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
22. Don't use no double negatives.
23. capitalize every sentence and remember always end it with point 24. Do not put statements in the negative form.
25. Avoid alliteration. Always.
26. Employ the vernacular.
27. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
28. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
29. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction. (Remember, too, a preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with.) 30. Don't overuse exclamation marks!!
31. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to the irantecedents.
32. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
33. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
34. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
35. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Touché!!!
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