1. Hello, I am a comma after a greeting

2. Complex sentence seeks simple comma

3. Avoid clichés like the plague

4. Repeated modifiers really, really need a comma

5. Students, use a comma after a direct address

6. Conjunctions: grammar’s own glue

7. A sentence ending in “too” needs a comma, too.

8. Say it with direct speech

9. The full stop: a cracking way to end a sentence.

10. Nothing says possession like an apostrophe

11. Get excited about exclamation marks!

12. Health Warning: Apostrophes give you contractions

13. “ Direct speech needs talking marks.”

14. Extra information can go between your brackets

15. An ellipsis is for trailing off and...

16. Semi-colons join two sentences; this works well.

17. Use your colon for definition

18. The mark that gives you the answer: the colon.

19. Dash follows sudden stops

20. Hyphen: turn two words into one

21. Don’t question question-marks for questions

22. Repetition strikes again

23. Rhyme is the same final sound, all the time.

24. Assonance: rhyme for vowels

25. Alliteration: when words have the same sound at the start

26. One idea: one paragraph

27. Metaphors are gold

28. Similes are like gold

29. Anaphora is effective. Anaphora is fun.

30. Antithesis: the best of techniques, the worse of techniques

31. Understatement is just okay

32. Hyperbole is the best thing, ever

33. We should all believe in inclusive language

34. Who doesn’t need rhetorical questions?

35. Heroes use emotive language

36. Authorities say, “appeal to experts”

37. Onomatopoeia: what it sounds like

38. Concrete nouns have weight

39. Abstract nouns are things, too

40. Verbs do

41. Nouns are really something

42. Add to your verbs with adverbs

43. Adjectives should be called ad-nouns

44. Dependant clause needs independent clause

45. Independent clauses can stand alone

46. Spoonerism: a spigger of feech

47. Acronyms: when you need the information PDQ

48. Indirect speech gets the point across

49. THE definite article: there can be only one

50. The indefinite article: a is an answer

51. A Strunk of collective nouns

52. Pronoun: the stand-in

53. Verb phrases: many words do verb work

54. Noun phrases: when more is more

55. Although you don’t want to overdo it, you can start a sentence with a conjunction

56. Predicate: what happened?

57. The future tense will be great

58. The past tense was...

59. The present tense is happening

60. Prepositions are where it’s at

61. It’s always means “it is”

62. It’s not all right to write “alright”

63. Well-behaved commas don’t join two sentences

64. The contention is what it’s all about

65. I wish this were in the subjunctive

66. Personification is my excellent friend

67. 93% of statistics influence readers

68. Bias is bloody awful

69. Stories are the anecdote to boredom

70. Generalisation is always wrong

71. Puns are pun

72. It is really is fine to boldly split the infinitive

73. Use imperatives

74. Topic sentence: say what you mean

75. If you don’t know your idioms, you’ve got Buckley’s