User:Sullevon
What I do here[edit]
Hi, I'm just a normal guy who has edited anonymously for a while and recently got a login. I'm from the Pacific Northwest and so far really enjoy writing, something I haven't done for years.
Leave me mail, I like mail.[edit]
Strunk and White, third edition[edit]
Usage
- create a possessive with 's
- In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last.
- Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas.
- Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause.
- Do not join independent clauses by a comma; if a sentence has two independent clauses not joined with a conjunction then use a semicolon.
- Do not break sentences in two.
- Use a colon after an independent clause to introduce a list of particulars, an appositive, an amplification, or an illustrative quotation.
- Use a dash to set off an abrupt break or interruption, and to announce a long appositive or summary.
- The number of the subject determines the number of the verb.
- Use the proper case of pronoun.
- A participle phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject.
Composition
- Choose a suitable design and hold to it.
- Make the paragraph the unit of composition.
- Use the active voice.
- Put statements in positive form.
- Use definite, specific, concrete language.
- Omit needles words.
- Avoid a succession of loose sentences.
- Express coordinate ideas in similar form.
- Keep related words together.
- In summaries, keep to one tense.
- Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.
Use[edit]
- SpellBound, a spell checker for Mozilla Firefox
Awards[edit]
Wikiwings are the official award of WikiProject Aircraft. Styled after military flight wings, they are awarded to anyone who makes extensive, high-quality, or generally valued contributions to the area of aviation on Wikipedia. They can be awarded by anyone, to anyone, in a barnstar-like fashion.
The wikiwings award is modelled after Rlandmann's wikiwings award, and were officially adopted by WikiProject Aircraft on October 29, 2005.
For your contributions on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter!