Subj:    E-MAIL Suggestions
Date:   98-04-01 17:59:36 EST
From:   [log in to unmask] (Alex Abramowicz)
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>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.
>
> 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.
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>  5.When dangling, don't use participles.
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> 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.
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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.
>
>  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 which have creeped into our language.
>
>  18.Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
>
> 19.Avoid unnecessary redundancy.
>
>  20.A writer mustn't shift your point of view.
>
>  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
>