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Title: English Rules of Thum


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1. Don't use no double negatives.
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2. Make each pronoun agree with their
antecedents.
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3. Join clauses good, like a conjunction
should.
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4. About them sentence fragments.
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5. When dangling, watch your participles.
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6. Verbs has got to agree with their subjects.
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7. Just between you and i, case is important.
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8. Don't write run-on sentences when they are
hard to read.
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9. Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.
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10. Try to not ever split infinitives.
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11. It is important to use your apostrophe's
correctly.
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12. Proofread your writing to see if you any
words out.
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13. Correct speling is essential.
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14. A preposition is something you never end a
sentence up with.
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15. While a transcendent vocabulary is laudable,
one must be eternally careful so that the
calculated objective of communication does not
become ensconced in obscurity.
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16. Eschew obfuscation.
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