How to Write Good
- It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
- Contractions aren’t necessary.
- The passive voice is to be avoided.
- Prepositions are not the words to end sentences with.
- Be more or less specific.
- Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
- One-word sentences? Eliminate!
- Who needs rhetorical questions?
- Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
I catch it all the time for my grammar on the blog, but that is just me. I write like a I talk! Oops.
What can I say? But, why should I use rhetorical questions?
L.O.L!
Verily, and forsooth. Avoid obsolete words.
@Rebecca – I am not sure that grammar is taught any more.
I went to a Catholic school where it was beat into me. The times tables were also a favorite of the nuns.
This topic was very much on my mind last night! I am reading a Michael Crichton book aloud to the husband and — oh my word– his grammar is horrid. He commonly writes in fragmented sentences, which are very laborious to read. I'm certainly no grammar expert, but I do wonder how on earth such writing gets past an editor! Perhaps the grammar errors are chalked up as "style." LOL!
Excellent. I think you may have pretty much nailed all the grammatical sins I am guilty of.
Thanks for this info…I always wanted to be a gooder writer.