Here is a collection of humorous grammar rules that will make you giggle some more.
- It is important to use italics for emphasis sparingly.
- In good writing, for good reasons, under normal circumstances, whenever you can, use prepositional phrases in limited numbers and with great caution.
- Avoid going out on tangents unrelated to your subject -- not the subject of a sentence -- that's another story (like the stories written by Ernest Hemingway, who by the way wrote the great fisherman story The Old Man and the Sea).
- Complete sentences. Like rule 10.
- Unless you're a righteous expert don't try to be too cool with slang to which you're not hip.
- If you must use slang, avoid out-of-date slang. Right on!
- You'll look poorly if you misuse adverbs.
- Use the ellipsis ( . . . ) to indicate missing . . .
- Use brackets to indicate that you [ not Shakespeare, for example ] are giving people [ in your class ] information so that they [ the people in your class ] know about whom you are speaking. But do not use brackets when making these references [ to other authors ] excessively.
- Note: People just can't stomach too much use of the colon.
- Between good grammar and bad grammar, good grammar is the best.
- There are so many great grammar rules that I can't decide between them.
- In English, unlike German, the verb early in the sentence, not later, should be placed.
- When you write sentences, shifting verb tense is bad.
Have you read the original Humorous Grammar Rules?