Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Adding 'and shit' to the end of any sentence makes it sound cooler and shit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every director has his own syntax, his own grammar, his own words. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She was a little vulgar; sometimes she said “I seen” and “If I had’ve known.” But what would grammar matter if he… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“Grammar and spelling are a part of thought process. If one knows the meaning of words, one may be able to better… — Sienna McQuillen Copy Share Image
If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through… — Anne Hull Copy Share Image
“To tell a group of adolescents who already know how to speak and write that that is the purpose of grammar is… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.… — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
“I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Not until 1761 did any grammarian settle on the eight that became the canonical parts of speech in English. He was the… — Bryan A. Garner Copy Share Image
Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
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