How to rite rite

• Don’t abbrev.
• Check to see if you any words out.
• Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.
• About sentence fragments.
• Always avoid alliteration.
• Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
• Avoid clichés like the plague.
• Employ the vernacular.
• Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
• Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
• It is wrong ever to split an infinitive.
• Contractions aren’t necessary.
• Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
• One should never generalize.
• Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
• Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
• Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
• Profanity sucks.
• Be more or less specific.
• Understatement is always best.
• Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
• 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.
• Who needs rhetorical questions?
• When dangling, don’t use participles.
• Don’t use no double negatives.
• Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
• Just between you and I, case is important.
• Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
• Don’t use commas, that aren’t necessary.
• It’s important to use apostrophe’s right.
• It’s better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.
• Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.
• Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should begin with a capital and end with a period
• Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.
• In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart.
• Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our language.
• Verbs has to agree with their subject.
• Avoid unnecessary redundancy.
• A writer mustn’t shift your point of view.
• Don’t write a run-on sentence you’ve got to punctuate it.

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