Here are mine for the English language:
l. Avoid overusing the verb to be. Don't be - Do! Use active verbs.
2. Adjectives and adverbs clutter sentences when a power verb will energize them. If you must use an adjective, make it astonish the noun. Use a verb instead.
3. Use of the word beautiful to describe anything. How about a description or metaphor? What does "beautiful mean"? Make the words do the talking.
4. An abstract word like anger, love, hate, angst in a poem doesn't communicate what those words mean to you. Show what it looks, sounds and feels like. What is a taste of love?
5. Watch the misuse of pronouns. Everyone likes their (correct: his or her) opinion. She went with him and I (me is the object, I is always a subject. She and I went with him). She and him are sick (he is the subject).
Make your list of five, then how you might avoid the peeve or turn it into a Positive when it arrives again.
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