Grammar Quotes
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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated
William Somerset Maugham
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When a thought takes one`s breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas W. Higginson
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The greater part of the world`s troubles are due to questions of grammar
Michel de Montaigne
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I am the King of Rome, and above grammar
Emperor Sigismund
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Grammar is the grave of letters
Elbert Hubbard
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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
Stephen King
Keywords: advertising :: american :: british :: but :: can :: carta :: charm :: condoms :: copy :: doesn :: education :: for :: goddam :: grammar :: has :: have :: it :: its :: like :: magazine :: magna :: make :: man :: of :: own :: proper :: ribbed :: scruffy :: sound :: sturdiness :: the :: withSubject: America and Americans Quotes :: Grammar QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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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
Stephen King
Keywords: advertising :: american :: british :: but :: can :: carta :: charm :: condoms :: copy :: doesn :: education :: for :: goddam :: grammar :: has :: have :: it :: its :: like :: magazine :: magna :: make :: man :: of :: own :: proper :: ribbed :: scruffy :: sound :: sturdiness :: the :: withSubject: America and Americans Quotes :: Grammar QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion
Subject: Grammar QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion
Subject: Grammar QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg
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Grammar is not a time of waste
Nancy Cartwright
Subject: Grammar QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Good Westerns are liked by everyone. Since humans are weak, they want to see good people and great heroes. Westerns have been done over and over again, and in the process a kind of grammar has evolved. I have learned much from this grammar of the Western.
Akira Kurosawa
Keywords: again :: and :: are :: been :: by :: done :: everyone :: evolved :: from :: good :: grammar :: great :: has :: have :: heroes :: humans :: in :: kind :: learned :: liked :: much :: of :: over :: people :: process :: see :: since :: the :: they :: this :: to :: want :: weak :: western :: westernsSource: imdb.com
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Good Westerns are liked by everyone. Since humans are weak, they want to see good people and great heroes. Westerns have been done over and over again, and in the process a kind of grammar has evolved. I have learned much from this grammar of the Western.
Akira Kurosawa
Keywords: again :: and :: are :: been :: by :: done :: everyone :: evolved :: from :: good :: grammar :: great :: has :: have :: heroes :: humans :: in :: kind :: learned :: liked :: much :: of :: over :: people :: process :: see :: since :: the :: they :: this :: to :: want :: weak :: western :: westernsSource: imdb.com
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Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart...good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it`s done.
John Mayer
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[on Alfred Hitchcock] He is the one who distilled the essence of film. He`s like Webster. It`s all there. I`ve used a lot of his grammar.
Brian De Palma
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What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn`t tell me how to write Ulysses.
David Baker
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This grammar school boy is not going to take any lessons from a public school boy on children from less privileged backgrounds.
Michael Howard
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So I grew up in an area where it wasn`t expected that I would have a kind of scholastic career, or go to grammar school, or anything like that.
Trevor Nunn
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My friends, all Hispanic girls, we went to school with the kids from North, Central and Alhambra, and we discovered we were not attuned to their level. `Are they smarter than us?` we asked, ... I learned later about the arts and grammar. I don`t want our ...
Patricia Lopez
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It`s really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven`t. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
Bo Derek
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It`s all very well being a native speaker. But explaining complex grammar without training would be a nightmare. A course gives you practice. There`s an obligation from schools to have professionally trained teachers, and your students expect to leave the...
Sarah Wilson
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I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.
Alison Marquiss
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I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.
Mike Farrell
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I was born and brought up in Suffolk and was one of the final intake of my generation to benefit from a grammar school education in Ipswich.
Andreas Renschler
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I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
Anthony Holden
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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, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
Alan Shaw
Keywords: buy :: day :: do :: don :: every :: grammar :: if :: in :: it :: know :: language :: me :: of :: or :: people :: persuade :: re :: rules :: seems :: should :: something :: the :: their :: they :: think :: to :: try :: trying :: use :: vernacular :: we :: which :: write :: youSource: brainyquote.com
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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.
Alan Shaw
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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Louis Aragon
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Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves
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Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
Abraham Scott
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