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Grammar rules for posting questions....?
It seems some people are not sure how to post a question properly, which some people find annoying so here is a simple guide.
1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Don't use no double negatives.
12. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
32 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
hahaha very good !
dang quizard had a similar one just ready to post,well might as well stick it here now.............
HOW TO WRITE GOOD
Here are several very important but often forgotten rules
of English:
1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8. Contractions aren't necessary.
9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once
said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
12. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words
than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14. Profanity sucks.
15. Be more or less specific.
16. Understatement is always best.
17. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be avoided.
21. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
22. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
23. Who needs rhetorical questions?
some might be the same sorry and I got more than you (not so sorry ) nene me ne me !!!!
lol
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Hey, Quizard, try to keep up, will you? School's out and nobody has to observe rules that hold there.
The idea of this website is to stimulate discussion from people of all walks of life. If those people do not meet your unedified requirements, perhaps you could have a look around and join a different game.
A person's ability to conjugate verbs or spell is absolutely unimportant, what is important is that they made the effort to write something for consideration by others, that is the prime force here. If you are so self-obssessed with a sense of superiority that this causes you offence, you are free to leave.
Your elitist and arrogant thinking is actually counter-productive to stimulating brainstorming and free thinking.
That, and your grammatical howler in your first point, have finished up making you look a bit of an eejit. That's Irish, look it up.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It's about time that this lesson was given, I think a lot of it is sheer lazyness, not reading the question properly, not using spell check, and lastly not previewing their answer and editing it before submitting it.
Your rules are very clever.
- kittysmleLv 51 decade ago
When I started to read it, I was like, wait a min, you're trying to tell me how to use grammar-- oh wait... hahahaha- awesome, but I do agree some people won't be getting this one.
Source(s): --although there should be some guidelines in talking so we could actually understand said questions-- - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Brilliant!!! xD
Simply brilliant! xD
And the verb doesn't has to agree with the subject! xD
Have a star! *
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Why is this in Jokes?
Only kidding! Very funny.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
LOL! Can't wait for the roolz on speeling!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I`m liking this. wish i had thought of it. blue peter badge and one thousand stars