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Date: | Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:31:50 EDT |
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Subj: E-MAIL Suggestions
Date: 98-04-01 17:59:36 EST
From: [log in to unmask] (Alex Abramowicz)
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>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 12:00:00 -0800
>To: RandH
>From: Bill Kroyer <billk>
>Subject: E-MAIL Suggestions
> The grammer in emails is deplorable.
> Please follow these rules.
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> 1.Don't abbrev.
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> 2.Check to see if you any words out.
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> 3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.
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> 4.About sentence fragments.
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> 5.When dangling, don't use participles.
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> 6.Don't use no double negatives.
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> 7.Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
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> 8.Just between you and I, case is important.
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> 9.Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
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> 10.Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.
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> 11.Its important to use apostrophe's right.
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> 12.It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.
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> 13.Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.
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> 14.Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should begin
>with a capital and end with a period
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> 15.Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.
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> 16.In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to
keep
>a string of items apart.
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> 17.Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our language.
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> 18.Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
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> 19.Avoid unnecessary redundancy.
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> 20.A writer mustn't shift your point of view.
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> 21.Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.
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> 22.A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.
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> 23.Avoid cliches like the plague
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