Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The misconceptions about grammar posted on the 'Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“In this chthonian world the only thing of importance is orthography and punctuation. It doesn't matter what the nature of the calamity… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“That Grace looked annoyed at me. "I didn't say you would go to jail, Junie B.," she said. "I just wish you… — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics.… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a… — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t. — Richard Turner Copy Share Image
english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar… — Nicolas Provost Copy Share Image
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
“The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes.… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band.… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which… — John Hume Copy Share Image
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they… — John Madden Copy Share Image
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Past, present, and future too swirl together, distinguishable but not delineated by any sort of grammar beyond the one our hearts impose.” — Shawna Yang Ryan Copy Share Image
Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked.… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply… — Christian Rudder Copy Share Image
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