Mr.+Chase's+25+Rules+and+Morsels+of+Sage+Advice+for+the+Improvement+of+Spoken+and+Written+English

1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.

2. Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.

3. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

4. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)

5. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.

6. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies endlessly over and over again.

7. No sentence fragments.

8. Contractions aren't always necessary and shouldn't be used to excess so don’t.

9. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous and can be excessive.

10. Don't use no double negatives.

11. The passive voice is to be ignored.

12. Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.

13. Don’t overuse exclamation points!!!

14. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed and use it correctly with words’ that show possession.

15. Who needs rhetorical questions? However, what if there were no rhetorical questions?

16. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

17. People don’t spell "a lot" correctly alot of the time.

18. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

19. Proofread carefully to make sure you don’t repeat repeat any words.

20. Each person should use their possessive pronouns correctly

21. In writing, it’s important to remember that dangling sentences.

22. 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).

23. Complete sentences.

24. Unless you're a righteous expert don't try to be too cool with slang to which you're not hip.

25. In English, unlike German, the verb early in the sentence, not later, should be placed.