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  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. Like this.
  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 that have creeped into our language.
  18. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
  19. Avoid unnecessary redundancy. It's highly superfluous.
  20. A writer mustn't shift your point of view.
  21. Don't write a run-on sentence where instead you've got to punctuate it to break it up when necessary because smaller sentences are often better at making the point.
  22. A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
  23. Avoid cliches like the plague. They're old hat.
  24. Avoid alliteration always.
  25. Be more or less specific.
  26. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
  27. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
  28. The passive voice is to be mostly avoided.
  29. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
  30. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
  31. Who needs rhetorical questions?
  32. Profanity sucks.