How To Write Real
Good English
1. Always
avoid all alliteration.
2. Prepositions
are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid
clichés like the plague. They’re old
hat.
4. Comparisons
are as bad as clichés.
5. Be
more or less specific.
6. Writers
should never generalise.
7. Don’t
be redundant. Don’t use more words than necessary – it’s highly superfluous.
8. Who
needs rhetorical questions?
9. Exaggeration
is a billion times worse than understatement.
10. Take
the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
11. Eschew
obfuscation and don’t indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
12. Never
begin a sentence with the word “never”.
13. And
never start a sentence with the word “and”.
14. It’s
not a good idea to casually split an infinitive.
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