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This lesson offers 
practical writing tips 

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on some of the basic principles
of good usage & grammar in English. 

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Following the seminal book 
The Elements of Style by Strunk&White, 

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it summarizes these elements into top 10
elementary principles of usage. 

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These 10 practical rules are:

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Form the possessive singular 
of nouns with 's

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In a series of three or more terms 
with a single conjunction,

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use a comma after each term 
except the last

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Enclose parenthetic expressions 
between commas

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Do not join independent clauses 
with a comma

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Proper use of semicolon


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Proper use of colon and dash&hypen

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Do not break sentences in two

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Subject-Verb agreement

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and the last one: 

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A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence 
must refer to the grammatical subject.