WELCOME to MONDAY June 17, 2023

Tips to improve your writing….

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
3. Employ the vernacular.
4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
5. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
6. Remember to never split an infinitive.
7. Contractions aren’t necessary.
8. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
9. One should never generalize.
10. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson
    said, “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
11. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
12. Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words
    than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
13. Be more or less specific.
14. Understatement is always best.
15. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
16. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
17. The passive voice is to be avoided.
18. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
19. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
20. Who needs rhetorical questions?
21. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
22. Don’t never use a double negation.
23. capitalize every sentence and remember always end it with point
24. Do not put statements in the negative form.
25. Verbs have to agree with their subjects.
26. Proofread carefully to see if you words out.
27. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great
    deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
28. A writer must not shift your point of view.
29. And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction. (Remember, too,
    a preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with.)
30. Don’t overuse exclamation marks!!
31. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences,
    as of 10 or more words, to the irantecedents.
32. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
33. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
34. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
35. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
36. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with
    singular nouns in their writing.
37. Always pick on the correct idiom.
38. The adverb always follows the verb.
39. Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague; They’re old hat; seek viable alternatives.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! Have a GREAT MONDAY, people, stay safe,
and whatever you do, don’t forget to laff it up! Peace, I am outta here! Eucman! 😁

q u o t e s o f t h e d a y

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of
American life. Violence and committee meetings.
–George F. Will

We don’t know who we are until
we see what we can do.
–Martha Grimes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours.
–Henry David Thoreau

Guaranteed to Roll Your Eyes
The Committee for the Reduction of Redundancy and the Antiproliferation of
Repetition has decided not to meet until they have their first meeting and thus
will not be meeting until the first time. Their Pre-meeting Statement wanted to
make this clear before they had their first meeting, so that it would not be unor confusing.
So their first meeting will actually be their first meeting and they will not have a meeting before the first meeting.
This should avoid having people show up for their first meeting before it is held, since to do so
would be confusing to those who did so and this is what they want to avoid by
reducing the confusion and lessening the repetition. 😳😳😳

Friday’s’ Movie Trivia of the day! What movie is this quote from??? “
“It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done; a far, far better place that I go to than I have ever known”

Answer: A Tale of Two Cities!
Based on a novel by Charles Dickens, “A Tale of two Cities” has been remade more than once, this one being the best. Sidney Carton, at first a carefree lawyer, tries to aid victims of the Reign of Terror in Paris, but ends up anything but carefree. Sidney Carton (Ronald Colman) has led a dissolute life in London, but goes to Paris to help an imprisoned man, the husband of the woman that Carton is in love with. In aiding his friend (successfully), Carton is sentenced to die on the guillotene. As the blade falls, his voice is heard uttering the last words. This line shows that his past has not been of much worth, and he has no regrets for his ultimate sacrifice.
This, the original version, stars Ronald Colman, with Elizabeth Allen, Basil Rathbone, Edna Mae Oliver and Reginald Owen.

Monday’s Movie Trivia of the day! What movie is this quote from???
“Shut up and deal”

Friday’s Quizzler is….​
Start with an eight-letter first name of a female character in the Harry Potter series. The next word
will have one letter less and may need unscrambling. Begin to add letters at question #9.

1. Female friend of Harry Potter. (8 letters – first name)
2. Female hero. (7 letters)
3. Immediately following. (6 letters)
4. Wading bird. (5 letters)
5. An antler-like object. (4 letters)
6. Harry Potter’s first friend at Hogwarts. (3 letters)
7. Opposite of ‘yes’. (2 letters)
8. 14th letter of the English alphabet. (1 letter)
9. Symbol for sodium. (2 letters)
10. The forefront of a movement. (3 letters)
11. The central seating area of a church. (4 letters)
12. A black bird that sometimes symbolizes death. (5 letters)
13. Steep sided valley. (6 letters)
14. Female transfiguration teacher in the Harry Potter books. (7 letters – first name)

Hint will reveal the answers to #3 and #11

Answer: 1. Hermione

2. Heroine
3. Hereon
4. Heron
5. Horn
6. Ron
7. No
8. N
9. Na
10. Van
11. Nave
12. Raven
13. Ravine
14. Minerva

Monday’s Quizzler is…….
Below are incomplete words. Place three (3) letters in each bracket so that you
can complete the word on the left and begin the word on the right. Good luck.

acc (_ _ ) r urg ( _ ) ity fas ( _ ) acity dunga ( _ ) ling fe ( _ ) satile gos ( _ _) ping

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