Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous. — Mary Jane Holmes Copy Share Image
“grammar’s the difference between feeling you’re nuts and feeling your nuts.” — John Locke Copy Share Image
His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him! — Richard Harris Barham Copy Share Image
Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar. — Carlo Grante Copy Share Image
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly… — Steve Earle 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
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
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 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
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
If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just… — John Madden Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Growing up with well-educated parents and an older sister with her Master’s Degree in English Language and Literature, I was left with… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Flammable. An oddity, chiefly useful in saving lives. The common word meaning "combustible" is inflammable. But some people are thrown off by… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about the idea of poetic license. People say that about certain writers: "Oh, the grammar sucks, but it's just the… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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