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Grammar Quotes by Robert Graves
- Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
- I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel…
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- 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
- It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. — W. Somerset Maugham
- We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we… — Jacob Bronowski
- The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have… — Heinz Pagels
- I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and… — Robert Orben