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«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 abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.»
Author: Robert Graves
| Keywords:
abroad, attempts, bend, classics, grammar, grammars, honest woman, horror, Rules of, sordid, The Classics, the English, The Rules
«I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.»
«At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| Keywords:
composition, compositions, Dictionaries, distraction, distractions, grammars
«Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.»
«American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm»
Author: Stephen King
(Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Grammar
| Keywords:
advertising copy, American Magazine, British, British and, charm, condom, condoms, copy, goddam, grammar, grammars, magazine, proper, rib, ribbed, scruffy, The Magazine
«GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Advances, distinction, grammar, grammars, self-made, The Path, the self, thoughtfully
«I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
believe in, fear, getting, grammar, grammars, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, still
«Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
aggravate, aggravated, aggravates, aggravating, cats, fighting, grammar, grammars, ignorant, make noise, noise, noised, noise like, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens
«The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
| Keywords:
American Constitution, American language, constitutions, construct, constructs, define, grammar, grammars, parts of speech, part of speech, practically, syntax, The American
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