"People who start a sentence with personally ought……" — Georgette Heyer

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• I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people… — 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… — Dave Brubeck
• It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific.… — 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… — Louis Aragon
• It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds.… — 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… — Jacob Bronowski
• The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon… — Heinz Pagels
• I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell.… — Robert Orben

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