Dante's Stalker
"Outrun this!"
I felt the compulsion to contribute a little something to the fanfiction board. It's not a fanfiction (ignores over-dramatised sigh of relief) but it's about writing.
The 13 Gremlins of Grammar, from the Good Grammar by Graham King.
1. Correct speling is essential.
2. Don't use no double negatives.
3. Verbs has got to agree with their subjects.
4. Don't write run-on sentences they are hard to read.
5. About them sentence fragments.
6. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.
7. A preposition is not a good word to end a sentence with.
8. Remember to not ever split infinitives.
9. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
10. Alway's use apostrophe's correctly.
11. Make each singular pronoun agree with their antecedents.
12. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
13. Proofread your writing to make sure you don't words out.
And, ABOVE ALL, avoid cliché's like the plague.
And a little something else!
Three little words we often see
Determiners, like a, an and the.
A Noun's the name of anything
A school or garden, hoop or string.
An adjective tells the kind of noun,
Like great, small, pretty, white or brown.
Instead of nouns the pronouns stand
John's head, his face, my arm, your hand.
Verbs tell of something being done
To read, write, count, sing, jump or run.
How things are done, the adverbs tell,
Like slowly, quickly, ill or well.
A preposition stands before
A noun, as in a room, or through a door.
Conjunctions join the nouns together
Like boy or girl, wind and weather.
The interjection shows surprise
Like oh! How charming. Ah! How wise!
The whole are called 'Nine parts of speech'
Which reading, writing and speaking teach.
That's all from me
The 13 Gremlins of Grammar, from the Good Grammar by Graham King.
1. Correct speling is essential.
2. Don't use no double negatives.
3. Verbs has got to agree with their subjects.
4. Don't write run-on sentences they are hard to read.
5. About them sentence fragments.
6. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.
7. A preposition is not a good word to end a sentence with.
8. Remember to not ever split infinitives.
9. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
10. Alway's use apostrophe's correctly.
11. Make each singular pronoun agree with their antecedents.
12. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
13. Proofread your writing to make sure you don't words out.
And, ABOVE ALL, avoid cliché's like the plague.
And a little something else!
19th Century Victorian verse:
Three little words we often see
Determiners, like a, an and the.
A Noun's the name of anything
A school or garden, hoop or string.
An adjective tells the kind of noun,
Like great, small, pretty, white or brown.
Instead of nouns the pronouns stand
John's head, his face, my arm, your hand.
Verbs tell of something being done
To read, write, count, sing, jump or run.
How things are done, the adverbs tell,
Like slowly, quickly, ill or well.
A preposition stands before
A noun, as in a room, or through a door.
Conjunctions join the nouns together
Like boy or girl, wind and weather.
The interjection shows surprise
Like oh! How charming. Ah! How wise!
The whole are called 'Nine parts of speech'
Which reading, writing and speaking teach.
That's all from me
