{"id":430223,"date":"2018-03-12T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T16:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essaypaper.org\/fun-english-grammar-rules-to-help-you-improve-your-writing\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:57:38","slug":"fun-english-grammar-rules-to-help-you-improve-your-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fun-english-grammar-rules-to-help-you-improve-your-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun English Grammar Rules To Help You Improve Your Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Learning English grammar rules is easier than you think, and fun.<\/h2>\n

Here is a little light grammar relief for you. Perhaps it will be a good way to waste ten minutes of your day, or to encourage you to extend your morning coffee break.<\/p>\n

The following list of grammar and writing rules was originally published on my personal blog many, many years ago. But as these rules remain useful to use as a quick refresher, I thought I would move the list here for Just Publishing Advice readers to enjoy.<\/p>\n

My favourites in this list are numbers 16, 29, 41 and 41. Yes, I really like 41 and 41. Take a look to see why.<\/p>\n

Of course, you can always rely on an online grammar checker such as Grammarly to do all the hard work for you. But there is much more fun to be gained in discovering your errors and correcting them yourself.<\/p>\n

Well, at least you can try.<\/p>\n

So on to the list, for you to read, enjoy and perhaps break out into a smile.<\/p>\n

55 Grammar mistakes and boo-boos that you should avoid making<\/h3>\n

1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.<\/p>\n

2. Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. Winston Churchill, corrected on this error once, responded to the young man who corrected him by saying \u201cYoung man, that is the kind of impudence up with which I will not put!<\/p>\n

3. And don\u2019t start a sentence with a conjunction.<\/p>\n

4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.<\/p>\n

5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They\u2019re old hat.)<\/p>\n

6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.<\/p>\n

7. Be more or less specific.<\/p>\n

8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.<\/p>\n

9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies endlessly over and over again.<\/p>\n

10. No sentence fragments.<\/p>\n

11. Contractions aren\u2019t always necessary and shouldn\u2019t be used to excess so don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

12. Foreign words and phrases are not always apropos.<\/p>\n

13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it\u2019s highly superfluous and can be excessive.<\/p>\n

14. All generalizations are bad.<\/p>\n

15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.<\/p>\n

16. Don\u2019t use no double negatives.<\/p>\n

17. Avoid excessive use of ampersands & abbrevs., etc.<\/p>\n

18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.<\/p>\n

19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake (Unless they are as good as gold).<\/p>\n

20. The passive voice is to be ignored.<\/p>\n

21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words, however, should be enclosed in commas.<\/p>\n

22. Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.<\/p>\n

23. Don\u2019t overuse exclamation points!!!<\/p>\n

24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.<\/p>\n

25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth-shaking ideas.<\/p>\n

26. Use the apostrophe in it\u2019s proper place and omit it when its not needed and use it correctly with words\u2019 that show possession.<\/p>\n

27. Don\u2019t use too many quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, \u201cI hate quotations.. Tell me what you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

28. If you\u2019ve heard it once, you\u2019ve heard it a billion times: Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly. Besides, hyperbole is always overdone, anyway.<\/p>\n

29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.<\/p>\n

30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.<\/p>\n

31. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.<\/p>\n

32. Who needs rhetorical questions? However, what if there were no rhetorical questions?<\/p>\n

33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.<\/p>\n

34. Avoid \u201cbuzz-words\u201d; such integrated transitional scenarios complicate simplistic matters.<\/p>\n

35. People don\u2019t spell \u201ca lot\u201d correctly alot of the time.<\/p>\n

36. Each person should use its possessive pronouns correctly.<\/p>\n

37. All grammar and spelling rules have exceptions (with a few exceptions).<\/p>\n

38. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.<\/p>\n

39. The dash \u2013 a sometimes useful punctuation mark \u2013 can often be overused \u2013 even though it\u2019s a helpful tool some of the time.<\/p>\n

40. Proofread carefully to make sure you don\u2019t repeat repeat any words.<\/p>\n

41. In writing, it\u2019s important to remember that dangling sentences.<\/p>\n

41. When numbering in a written document, check your numbering system carefully.<\/p>\n

42. It is important to use italics<\/em> for emphasis<\/em> sparingly.<\/p>\n

43. In good writing, for good reasons, under normal circumstances, whenever you can, use prepositional phrases in limited numbers and with great caution.<\/p>\n

44. Avoid going out on tangents unrelated to your subject \u2014 not the subject of a sentence \u2014 that\u2019s another story (like the stories written by Ernest Hemingway, who by the way wrote the great fisherman story The Old Man and the Sea).<\/p>\n

45. Complete sentences. Like rule 10.<\/p>\n

46. Unless you\u2019re a righteous expert don\u2019t try to be too cool with slang to which you\u2019re not hip.<\/p>\n

47. If you must use slang, avoid out-of-date slang. Cool! Right on!<\/p>\n

48. You\u2019ll look poorly if you misuse adverbs.<\/p>\n

49. Use the ellipsis ( . . . ) to indicate missing . . .<\/p>\n

50. Use brackets to indicate that you [ not Shakespeare, for example ] are giving people [ in your class ] information so that they [ the people in your class ] know about whom you are speaking. But do not use brackets when making these references [ to other authors ] excessively.<\/p>\n

51. Note: People just can\u2019t stomach too much use of the colon.<\/p>\n

52. Between good grammar and bad grammar, good grammar is the best.<\/p>\n

53. There are so many great grammar rules that I can\u2019t decide between them.<\/p>\n

54. In English, unlike German, the verb early in the sentence, not later, should be placed.<\/p>\n

55. When you write sentences, shifting verb tense was bad.<\/p>\n

You have reached the end!<\/h3>\n

If you have made it to here, I applaud your stamina. Good luck in using your improved grammar and writing knowledge.<\/p>\n

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