In modern writing, for good reasons, under normal circumstances, whenever
you can, use prepositional phrases in limited numbers and with great
caution.
Avoid going out on tangents unrelated to your subject — not the subject of
a sentence — that’s another story (like the stories written by Ernest
Hemingway, who by the way wrote the great fisherman story The Old Man and
the Sea).
Unless you’re a righteous dude don’t try to be too kewl with gnarly slang to
which you’re not hip.
And if you must use slang, avoid out-of-date slang. Right on!
You’ll look poorly if you misuse adverbs.
Use the ellipsis ( . . . ) to indicate missing . . .
Between good grammar and bad grammar, good grammar is the best.
There are so many great grammar rules that I can’t decide between them.
In English, unlike German, the verb early in the sentence, not later, should
be placed.
Note: People just can’t stomach too much use of the colon.
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Dr Bob Griffin
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“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”