Guides to Good Writing Style

1. Its important to use apostrophe's right.

2. It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.

3. Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.

4. Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should. begin with a capital and end with a full stop

5. Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.

6. In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart.

7. Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our language.

8. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.

9. Avoid unnecessary redundancy.

10. A writer mustn't shift your point of view.

11. Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.

12. A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.

13. Avoid clichés like the plague. And the number 13.

Life’s Crazy Rules

Kauffman's Paradox of the Corporation:

The less important you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or absence is noticed.

The Salary Axiom:

The pay raise is just large enough to increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your take-home pay.

Miller's Law of Insurance:

Insurance covers everything except what happens.

First Law of Living:

As soon as you start doing what you always wanted to be doing, you'll want to be doing something else.

Weiner's Law of Libraries:

There are no answers, only cross-references.

Isaac's Strange Rule of Staleness:

Any food that starts out hard will soften when stale.

Any food that starts out soft will harden when stale.

Kenny's Law of Auto Repair:

The part requiring the most consistent repair or replacement will be housed in the most inaccessible location.

Second Law of Business Meetings:

If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you will pick the wrong one.

Corollary - If there is only one way to spell a name, you will spell it wrong anyway.

The Grocery Bag Law:

The chocolate bar you planned to eat on the way home from the market is hidden at the bottom of the grocery bag.

Yeager's Law:

Washing machines break down only during the wash cycle.

Corollary: All breakdowns occur on the plumber's day off.

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