Contractions

 

Do not use contractions.

"Do not" carries more weight than "Don’t" does in both verbal speech and in written text. The same is true of "will not" and "won’t" or "you will" and "you’ll."

  • Do not use ambiguous contractions such as I’d, you’d, or he’d because I’d can either mean I would or I had. They force the reader to stop and figure out what you mean.

  • Do not use invented contractions like could’ve, should’ve, and would’ve.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Do Not Use

Create, modify, and delete layers using AutCAD’s Layer Manager.

  Do Use

Use the Layer Manager to create, modify, and delete layers.

Click two points to define a selection window around the building.

 


  Do Not Use

the cylinder’s radius

  Do Use

the cylinder radius