User:Ritchie333/MOS for Dummies
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- Use common sense
- Don't be a cockwomble
"Use common sense" - think back to your days at school when you were studying English language. (Or, for those who learned English as a foreign language, whenever you began to learn any formal grammar or structure beyond basic "tourist speak"). Maybe you recall the teacher telling you where commas and full stops go in a sentence, and what combination of words fit well together, and what just doesn't look right. Or perhaps you've just read the BBC News website day-in, day-out, and have a reasonable idea of what Formal English looks like. This is the important part of the MOS, it's all just repeating that stuff you learned at school and probably know anyway.
"Don't be a cockwomble" - this is the tricky part. You may be surprised to learn that parts of the MOS are under