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’