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«To be loose with grammar is to be loose with the worst woman in the world.»
Author: Otis C. Edwards
| Keywords:
grammar
«The misconceptions about grammar posted on the 'Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public schools do an equally bad job of teaching both»
Author: Raphael Carter
| About:
Grammar
| Keywords:
grammar, misconception, misconceptions, net, posted, presumably, public schools, The Net
«When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.»
Author: Thomas W. Higginson
(Abolitionist, Author, Clergyman, Minister)
| About:
Grammar
| Keywords:
grammar, impertinence
«Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.»
«When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
artificial, bleat, bleating, brute, contracting, etc., etc, first of all, free expression, grammar, hypercritical, interjection, lamb, lawless, mother tongue, particles, poetic, quarreling, requisite, Rules of, speaker, stretching, truest
«The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar»
«Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
combat, custom, grammar, jest, Rules of, strict
«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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