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This document establishes a set of "International common writing rules" in a language and among languages, facilitating communication in each language and language to languages. It is effective mainly in the business scenes and daily lives. It includes not only conceptual writing rules but specific grammar ones. It functions similarly as the writing rules of Plain languages and Controlled languages that people usually find in the modern world. Plain languages and Controlled languages facilitate understandability of sentences by applying the rules to use plain and concise expressions. Plain languages are the activities that have been generated to raise the literacy of people in each country (for domestic native speakers). Controlled languages facilitate communication for international audience and sometimes used in a machine translation scene as HOCL (Human-Oriented Controlled Language). Each purpose and each methodology are a little bit different from each other and each has its own characteristics: advantages and disadvantages. (Refer to these writing rules, see "9 Annex B, Useful writing guidelines.") SGL, targeting the people in business and daily lives of all over the world, is planned as a basic writing rule set for both Plain languages and Controlled languages. Also, SGL is created to be applicable to many languages. SGL helps people make their language an international common language.