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Steer clear of incorrect forms of verbs that have snuck in the language.
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Rules for Writers: Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read.
Don't use no double negatives. Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate...
Watch out for irregular verbs which has cropped into our language. -- Writing Rule 04
Ensign, if you encounter any holes...steer clear. -- Riker to Wesley, "Where Silence Has Lease", stardate 42193.
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T is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
-- George Washington (1732-1799) -- His Farewell Addre...
Channel 6's own Krusty the Klown has gathered members of the entertainment community, who normally steer clear of fashionable causes.
.. -- Kent Brockman's news report, "Radio Ba...
Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
hexadecimal n. Base 16. Coined in the early 1960s to replace earlier `sexadecimal', which was too racy and amusing for stuffy IBM, and later adopted by the rest of the industry.
Actually, neither term is etymologically pure. If we take `binary' to be paradigmatic, the most etymologically correct term for base 10, for example, is `denary', which comes from `deni' (ten at a time, ten each), a Latin `distributive' numbe...
hexadecimal:: n. Base 16. Coined in the early 1960s to replace earlier `sexadecimal', which was too racy and amusing for stuffy IBM, and later adopted by the rest of the industry.
Actually, neither term is etymologically pure....
We never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
-- The Kora...