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Article: Rules of the wrote.(Poem)
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- April 1, 2004
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RULES OF THE WROTE
Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
Just between you and I, case is important.
Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
Watch for irregular verbs which has cropped into our language.
Don't use no double negatives.
A writer mustn't shift your point of view.
When dangling, don't use participles.
Join clauses good, lie a conjunction should.
Don't use a run on sentence you got to punctuate it.
About sentence fragments.
In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that we use
commas to keep a string of items apart.
Don't use commas, which aren't ...
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... ... where the fence is. The states of New Hampshire and Maine are having difficulty doing that. New Hampshire claims it has uncovered historical ... Naval Shipyard, which was named after New Hampshire' s only seaport, but claimed by the ...
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