Grammar Quotes
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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
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Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
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I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
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Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
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You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.
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This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.
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Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.
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I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
