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“I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,” quote by Jane Green — Download Open image

““I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,””

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“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and Joyce, was clerkly enough, sceptical in many ways; and yet we can without difficulty convict most of these authors of dangerous lapses into mythical thinking. All were men of critical temper, haters of the decadence of…

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

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“Nevertheless . . was a word, certainly, but much more than a word, it was a concept. "Nevertheless" was what you said when you were not going to budge, whether expressing an opinion or an intention. It was a statement, not a question, and the only word in the English language to which it was pointless to respond. If you…

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place, this is the final test for any written piece... Do not neglect your sense of hearing in the process of writing and reading. As a longtime teacher of English as a foreign language, I can tell you on…

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The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

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