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Show I Tongues I I and 1 Cheeks I I liy Jay Uamsley J We got an interesting letter the other day here at the Reeord office. But it was unsigned so we couldn't use it. I thought I might share it with you: Dere Edatur: I injoy yure noozpaper very much. However, sumtimes I cant understand whut yure trying to say. Whute rong with me? Signed Mrs. Nomake U. Feelbad Maybe some of you have felt, the same way. As a matter of fact I think this letter came in about the same week as our typesetter went on vacation. It seems like the "typos" in the Record are about double on the weeks she is missing-the rest of us aren't quite as proficient as she is. On the same subject, here is a list of suggestions for anyone planning to go into writing as a career. (I am indebted to the Washington County News for the list, published in the News last week): 1. Each pronoun should agree with their antecedent. 2. Just between you and I, case is important. im-portant. 3. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. 4. Watch out for irregular verbs which have crope into the language. 5. Don't use no double negatives. Not never. 6. A writer should not shift your point of view. 7. Don't write a run-on sentence you have got to punctuate it. 8. About sentence fragments. 9. In articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep things apart without which we would have without doubt confusion. 10. But, Don't use, commas, which are not necessary. 11. Its important to use your apostrophe's correctly. 12. Don't abbreviate unless nec. 13. Check carefully to if you any words out. s 14. In my opinion, I think that an author when he is writing something should not get accustomed to the habit of making too many redudant unnecessary words that he does not really need in order to put his message accross to the reader of the article. ar-ticle. 15. About repetition, the repetition of a word is not usually effective repitition. 16. As far as incomplete constructions, they are wrong. 17. Spel correckly. 18. Last but not least, knock off the cliches. |