This is an digital record of a fading lined notebook page, written by long-dead old woman who had, decades upon decades ago, been an English teacher. I found it in my records and thought it'd be nice to record the faded scrawls and share it here as an archive.


Using English Good

  1. Each pronoun must agree with their antecedent.
  2. Just between you and me, Case is important.
  3. Verbs is supposed to agree with their subjects.
  4. Keep a watch for irregular verbs that have crope into our language.
  5. Don't never use no double negatives.
  6. A writer mustn't shift your point of view.
  7. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
  8. Don't write run-on sentences you must punctuate carefully.
  9. About sentence fragments.
  10. Being bad grammar, a student should not use dangling participles.
  11. In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that we like commas to keep a string of items apart.
  12. Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.
  13. Its important to use apostrophe's right.
  14. Don't abbrev.
  15. Avoid cliches like the plague.
  16. Mixed metaphors are a pain in the neck and ought to be thrown out the window.
  17. Placing a comma between subjects and predicates, is all wrong.
  18. Consult the dictionary frequently to avoid mispelling.
  19. Parenthetical words however should be put inside commas.
  20. Check to see if you any words out.

THE END


"A commas is important"

When it rains, cats and dogs seek shelter.
When it rains cats and dogs, seek shelter.

Woman, without her man, is savage.
Woman, without her, man is savage.