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Choose precisely the right word in the following:
1. What was the (affect/effect) of the victory?
2. (Because/Since) he lied, he was expelled.
3. We need to go four miles (further/farther) before we make camp.
4. The prisoners (alluded/eluded) the guard.
5. Sentences with (less/fewer) words are easier to understand.
6. Any spelling is (all [...]

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1.   Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispeling and to catch typograhpical errers.
2.   Don’t repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
3.   Don’t be redundant.
4.   Use the apostrophe in it’s proper place and omit it when its not needed.
5.   Don’t never use no double negatives.
6.   Poofread carefully to [...]

 
1.      The passive voice should not be used.
2.      Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
3.      Don’t repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
4.      Who needs rhetorical questions?
5.      Don’t use commas, that, are not, necessary.
6.      Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can [...]

One should never generalize.

Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”

Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.

It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions.

Avoid archaeic spellings too.

Understatement is always best.

Exaggeration is [...]

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Like the incessant, drip, drip, drip of an old, leaky faucet, a flood of words has saturated the English language, and they just won’t go away! This group of commonly confused words takes root in the subconscious and seems able to withstand the efforts of even the most well intentioned [...]