23 Steps to Gooder Grammar

Since we have been practicing social distancing for over two weeks now due to the carona virus, some of us may be getting bored. If you are looking for something to do, read through the 23 phrases and sentences below. You may get a chuckle or two from these examples of fractured grammar that  most of us learned to avoid by the time we were eighth-graders. If you were born before 1940 you probably learned these rules of grammar even earlier. 

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.      
15. a sentence should begin with a capital and end with a period      
16. Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.      
17. In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart.      
18. Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our language.      
19. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.      
20. Avoid unnecessary redundancy.      
21. A writer mustn't shift your point of view.      
22. Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.      
23. Avoid clichés like the plague.
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