thanks for this valuable article. 
after this my writing skills are like this :) ;) 
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Recommended! Will improve my German English!

Wow...great post..& you are the great tutor..while reading your post, I feel , I am doing my IELTS/TOFFEL preparation. I am afraid to comment on your post, because I am not good at English, though I tried...If I made any mistake, please correct me on free of cost.

I am learning here in steemit with free of cost and also making some money... UPvoted

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Great post. I am learning a ton. I have a regret now, that I didn't focus more in school about writing. Anyway thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Thanks for the tips, I guess it's these little things you don't realise that can make a big difference.

Thank you, I really need to improve my English and your post helps!! Keep up the post

These are great tips especially for non-native speakers like myself.  However I think there are those that are natural word-smiths. Also you could bet that those who write well have a reading rate (in number of books) that far exceeds those who don't.

I'd like to also say that your posts have been helping me a lot as English is not my native language, but it totally is.  Born and raised in Pennsylvania. I just have always sucked at English, punctuation, grammar, etc.  These posts are truly helpful. I've been following you for nearly a year now, but I'm going to start aggressively watching for these IYW posts. Thanks for putting them together. And keep doing the examples of each tip for us simple folk. lol 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for the informative post. I have always been upset with myself for not paying better attention in 9th grader English class. I hope you continue to come out with these types of articles as I am sure they are not only helpful to me, but the Steemit community as a whole. Cheers!

great write-up as usual!

I need to start paying more attention to the way I write!

Thanks for this! I am not a native so this will help me big time :)

thanks for nice advices

I upvote you. I follow you, you follow me back.
For daily nice posts.

Great information! English is not my mother tongue and I know somehow I am weak in the lanuage. The point you mentioned, esp. the vocab, passive and sentence structure are definitely what I should improve! Thanks for your reminder and I would try my effort to learn though it's a long long way!

I love these posts, I left school at a young age with no qualifications and found it very hard to read and write but now I am blogging on steemit, and enjoying every minute, and the strange thing is, people really seem to appreciate my post and the more I write the better I get.  I love your posts as they make me think more about how I structure my sentences. 
Thank you @dragonslayer109

Wow, you had a great lifestyle, you are improving your language, being active on steem and even do exercises?! I hope more votes will encourage you to do more squats haha.

Great piece of advice that people will appreciate. Especially if they are starting out or are not native speakers. 

One of the things that helped me improve drastically was showing my writing to others and receiving feedback. Also, extensions like Grammarly can also be extremely valuable.

Thank you :) have a wonderful day ;)

Great piece of advice. It will surely help me to write some more especially now when i joined steemit and also i'm not a native speaker as well. Means a lot, will try to implement all your points into my work. 

Not only i'll try to use stronger words, but also i would like to use wider variety of words cause i'm really bored and even angry at myself when i use too often words like "good" or "bad". 

Good luck!

Great article, thanks so much for sharing @dragonslayer
 @sunshinetraveler is following you for sure and I will upvote you.

Unfortunately I have to disagree with some of your suggestions. For example, Stephen King wrote in his book On Writing to rarely use adverbs:  

"The adverb is not your friend.

Adverbs … are words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. They’re the ones that usually end in -ly. Adverbs, like the passive voice, seem to have been created with the timid writer in mind. … **With adverbs, the writer usually tells us he or she is afraid he/she isn’t expressing himself/herself clearly, that he or she is not getting the point or the picture across.**

Consider the sentence He closed the door firmly. It’s by no means a terrible sentence (at least it’s got an active verb going for it), but ask yourself if firmly really has to be there. You can argue that it expresses a degree of difference between He closed the door and He slammed the door, and you’ll get no argument from me … but what about context? What about all the enlightening (not to say emotionally moving) prose which came before He closed the door firmly? Shouldn’t this tell us how he closed the door? And if the foregoing prose does tell us, isn’t firmly an extra word? Isn’t it redundant?

Someone out there is now accusing me of being tiresome and anal-retentive. I deny it. **I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.** To put it another way, they’re like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day . . . fifty the day after that . . . and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it’s — GASP!! — too late.

I can be a good sport about adverbs, though. Yes I can. With one exception: dialogue attribution. I insist that you use the adverb in dialogue attribution only in the rarest and most special of occasions . . . and not even then, if you can avoid it. Just to make sure we all know what we’re talking about, examine these three sentences:

‘Put it down!’ she shouted.
‘Give it back,’ he pleaded, ‘it’s mine.’
‘Don’t be such a fool, Jekyll,’ Utterson said.

In these sentences, shouted, pleaded, and said are verbs of dialogue attribution. Now look at these dubious revisions:

‘Put it down! she shouted menacingly.
‘Give it back,’ he pleaded abjectly, ‘it’s mine.’
‘Don’t be such a fool, Jekyll,’ Utterson said contemptuously.

The three latter sentences are all weaker than the three former ones, and most readers will see why immediately."

Very nice post.
Lots of  Steemians will benefit from this.
Thank you.
@tremendospercy

I must say, often I feel as if I am picking up more from your articleshere than I could from apaying "creative writing" course. 

Thanks for writing about this topic.

Very helpful tips especially for new writers just starting out. Thanks for this, I appreciate it :)