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- Allways use a spel cheker.
- Avoid long complex sentences which go on and on without using any punctuation to break up the long sentences as this can lead to confusion as people read your text
- Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.) (You mark my words)
- Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
- Employ the vernacular.
- Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
- Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary (and unwanted).
- It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
- Contractions aren’t necessary.
- Avoid alliteration. Always.
- Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
- Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
- Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
- One should never generalize.
- Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
- Be more or less specific.
- One-word sentences? Eliminate.
- Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
- The passive voice is to be avoided.
- Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
- Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
- Exaggeration is a million times worse than understatement.
- Who needs rhetorical questions?
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Understatement is always best.
