Children's Wisdom Grammar Rules Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Contractions aren't necessary. One should never generalize. Tell me what you know. Be more or less specific.
Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatment.
If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.