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1. Be sure to never split an infinitive.

‘he wants to quickly finish the work and


go home’
2. Prepositions are bad to end sentences with. ‘this is the sort of nonsense up
with which I will not put’
3. Passives are best avoided.
4. Circumlocution and undue emphasis on subtlety may not be as effective a
way of getting your message across when more direct and concise framing
is preferable.
5. But you should not start a sentence with a conjunction.
6. Don’t end a sentence with a preposition
7. Don’t use sentence fragments
8. Don’t use dangling participles
9. Don’t use a plural pronoun to refer back to a singular noun ex. Over there is
the guy who I went to the party with
10. Don’t use contractions
11. Don’t end a sentence with a linking verb
12. Don’t use an object pronoun for a subject pronoun in a conjoined subject
13. Don’t use a plural pronoun to refer back to singular noun like everyone,no
one,someone,and the like.
14. Use whom,not who, as the object of the a verb or preposition
15. Don’t use a preposition to end a sentence with
16. Pronounce the ing at the end of words not in
17. Don’t use double negative. ‘ I didn’t go nowhere’
18. Don’t use ‘like’

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