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Weird and Wonderful Facts with English Learning for Curious Minds 🧠 #271

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Six Rules for Effective Writing in English

Georgewell was also famous journalist and an author. And he had six rules for effective writing in english, which i thought could be a fun thing just share with you. Go through them quite quickly, bause there are six. The first one is to never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print because people just copy what they what other journalists write. Never use the passive when you can use the active. NEVER use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. So yod be happy to break those rules. I move on to some of the italian

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