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Grammar Quotes by Peter Farb
- Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the…
- Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly…
More Grammar Quotes
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach
- At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that… — Dave Brubeck
- It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory… — Noam Chomsky
- Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. — Winston Churchill
- I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic,… — Louis Aragon
- It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people… — Ivan Illich