Monday, March 31, 2008

Brushing up on my Grammar Skills

1.Don't abbrev.
2.Check to see if you any words out.
3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.
4.About sentence fragments.
5.When dangling, don't use participles.
6.Don't use no double negatives.
7.Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
8.Just between you and I, case is important.
9.Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
10.Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.
11.Its important to use apostrophe's right.
12.It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.
13.Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.
14.Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should
begin with a capital and end with a period
15.Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.
16.In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas
to keep a string of items apart.
17.Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our language

3 comments:

Caroline said...

I gave a copy of this to one of my English teachers. She is a grammar Nazi, so I thought she'd get a kick out of it. She did! Then turned to another student and said, "Don't do any of this!"

marcia@joyismygoal said...

I had to stop reading I heard screeching and realized it was meaaaaarrrrrggghhhh that was painful

Esther/Mom/Grandma said...

Funny! This brought back memories of diagramming sentences in junior and senior high school. Too bad I have forgotten a lot about sentence structure....