“for those to whom Lynne Truss is a hero, everything from spelling convention to word choice to logic is, somehow, “grammar.” And” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should… — R.L. Trask Copy Share Image
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I… — Sterling Knight 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
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
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was a copy editor. I loved it. I love grammar. I'm obsessed. I was a bartender. I worked in a cafe.… — Pauline Chalamet Copy Share Image
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to… — Cher Copy Share Image
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Let grammar rule the man who doesn’t know how to think what he feels. Let it serve those who are in command… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Misspelled words can ruin your life. One man sent this text to his wife...'I'm having a great time, wish you were her.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
Stop putting commas and question marks in your life where God is putting periods at least use exclamation marks to show excitement… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory… — Lorenzo Ghiberti Copy Share Image
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