The Subject Of A Sentence And The Principal Verb Should Not, As A Rule, Be Separated By A Phrase Or Clause That Can Be Transferred To The Beginning.

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The subject of a sentence and the principal verb
should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or
clause that can be transferred to the beginning.
-- Writing Rule 44

Subject and verb always has to agree. -- Writing Rule 20
No sentence fragments. -- Writing Rule 42
About sentence fragments. -- Writing Rule 10
Don't use a run on sentence you got to punctuate it. -- Writing Rule 09
Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct. -- Writing Rule 28
Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas. -- Writing Rule 29
Don't abbrev. -- Writing Rule 14
This sentence no verb.

The Subject Of A Sentence And The Principal Verb Should Not, As A Rule, Be Separated By A Phrase Or Clause That Can Be Transferred To The Beginning.

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