[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

As someone with a side business of editing/proofreading, I will say one thing in defense of these rules. Many of them many not be formally “wrong,” and English writers often use them, and have for quite a long time. Nevertheless, adhering to these rules will help keep you from sounding like an uneducated dunderhead.

[SoothingDave]

But there are some rules up with which we need not put.

[Oztrich Boy]

Nevertheless, adhering to these rules will help keep you from sounding like an uneducated dunderhead.

And as Fowler noted, adhering to those rules to produce a clumsy and inexact sentence reveals you as an educated dunderhead.

[discostu]

Actually I think adhering to those rules will more often than not make you sound like an uneducated dunderhead. That’s part of the point of the article, in most of the sample sentences she give trying to follow the bad rules creates unnatural sounding sentences with little flow.

[Daffynition]

[Silentgypsy]

“...adhering to these rules will help keep you from sounding like an uneducated dunderhead.”
I need more help than that. :)