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Rules for Good Grammar #4.
(1) Don't use no double negatives.
(2) Make each pronoun agree with their antecedents.
(3) Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
(4) About them sentence fragments.
(5) When dangling, watch your participles.
(6) Verbs has got to agree with their subjects.
(7) Just between you and i, case is important.
(8) Don't write run-on sentences when they are hard to read.
(9) Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.
(10) Try to not ever split infinitives.
(11) It is important to use your apostrophe's correctly.
(12) Proofread your writing to see if you any words out.
(13) Correct speling is essential.
(14) A preposition is something you never end a sentence with.
(15) While a transcendant vocabulary is laudable, one must be eternally
careful so that the calculated objective of communication does not
become ensconsed in obscurity. In other words, eschew obfuscation.
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Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my
teacher was in my class for five years.
-- George Burns
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Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books.
-- Folk saying
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"Speed is subsittute fo accurancy."
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Spelling is a lossed art.
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Suddenly, Professor Liebowitz realizes he has come to the seminar
without his duck ...
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Teachers have class.
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The 'A' is for content, the 'minus' is for not typing it. Don't ever do
this to my eyes again.
-- Professor Ronald Brady, Philosophy, Ramapo State College
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The alarm clock that is louder than God's own belongs to the roommate with
the earliest class.
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The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from
one graveyard to another.
-- J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England"
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