Grammar Quotes
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It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in grammar, then, one must both produce what is grammatical and produce it grammatically, that is, in accord with knowledge of grammar in oneself.
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A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how elegant they are while also being so permissive in relation to the niceties of grammar and so open to the prospect of surprise. He's a genius.
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I think a high grammar standard may be a losing fight on the Internet.
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I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there.
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A language is a compendium of the history, geography, material and spiritual life, the vices and virtues, not only of those who speak it, but also of those who have spoken it through the centuries. The words, the grammar, the syntax are a chisel that shapes our thought.
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I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.
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Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.
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Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
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Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.
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My wife saw a mug somewhere that says, 'I'm silently correcting your grammar.' I think that is perfect thing for me.
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After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.
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If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.
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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
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Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
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These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'
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There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I never tweet, and when I do, it's about some sort of sporting event that I'm watching.
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Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.
