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This poor gambler isn't even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.
Must we argue word choice? Now?
Nouns and verbs hold the power but syntax casts the spell.
I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.
Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.
Suspect all your favorite sentences.
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.
It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.
Our investigation is a grammatical one. Such an investigation sheds light on our problem by clearing misunderstandings away. Misunderstandings concerning the use of words, caused, among other things, by certain analogies between the forms of expression in different regions of language.
Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.
got her a can of Coke out of the fridge. "You want a glass?" She shook her head. Jean-Claude was leaning against the wall, staring at me as I moved about the kitchen. "I don't need a glass either," he said softly. "Don't get cute," I said. "Too late," he said. I had to smile. The
Any noun can be verbed.
There are times when words are extra, like raindrops on drenched grass. There are times for holding. He held her ...
Know the adjectives that define you and pay no heed to the verbs that defy you.
Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.
Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.
Traditional grammar
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.
These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich.
Writing's in the nouns.
Suspect all of your favorite sentences.
Adroitly that there was
Pick your words carefully as it has the power to make the sentence beautiful or ugly ...
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.
Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.
Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.
I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.
Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone
many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me to weep like a child.
I start sentences with ands and buts. I end sentences with prepositions.
God, you make me hot when you talk grammar.
Moods are adjectives of the grammar of life.
Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action.
There is room for words on subjects other than last words.
(...) He loved his new ability to wonder freely, do what he wanted, go where he chose (...) So high on adrenaline was he that he did not notice the effect the alcohol was having upon him until he was quite drunk. By that time, an opium pipe seemed a good idea, so he tried that too.
Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.
It will be seen that the Infinitive is a kind of noun with certain features of the verb, especially that of taking an object (when the verb is Transitive) and adverbial qualifiers. In short, the Infinitive is a Verb-Noun.
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.
Better, adj. and adv.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them.
If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.
That day I saw you at the library, after we talked at the bus stop. That day I saw you at the library, after we talked at the bus stop.
He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. But
These words have been sanitized for your protection. An adjective and a noun, respectively.
Verbs. All of them tiring.
do not receive the actions, but stand after prepositions. Thus,
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to ... But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.
Sometimes good people [are] helpless ... terrible things happen ... to good people ... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.
Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.
With sentences, shorter is better than longer:
Her words had often been
the autonomy of syntax;
She walks to a table
She walk to table
She is walking to a table
She walk to table now
What difference does it make
What difference it make
In Nature, no completeness
No sentence really complete thought
Language, like woman,
Look best when free, undressed.
C'mon, Alec," Damien said. "Sung just wants us to win." "No," I said. "Sung only wants us to win. There's a difference." Damien and the others looked at me blankly. This was not, I remembered, a word-choice crowd.
It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.
They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.
Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.
I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them
then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.
It was late when he got home, but as usual, every light in the house was still switched on. A lot of school time nowadays was spent on conservation and renewable energy, but his two boys hadn't learned yet how to depart a room without leaving on the lights. He
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language
There are two basic groups of German verbs ... strong and weak. Weak verbs are regular verbs that follow typical rules. Strong verbs are irregular. They don't follow patterns. You deal with strong verbs on your own terms ... Like people, ... The strong ones stand out. The weak ones are the same.
Verbing weirds language.
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice.
I fall way beyond the norm on the verb.
What had she learned about verbs? In the past and future tenses, the verb came at the end. And in the present it followed the subject. Wherever she went it tailed her. She dragged it behind like a sack of stones.
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.
Among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
Linguistic research has shown that the passive construction has a number of indispensable functions because of the way it engages a reader's attention and memory.
Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.
I am a verb, not a noun.
A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait to spell from her pen.
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.
In English every word can be verbed.
Hello, pretty hag," he said.
"Wolf," she teased. "You look good enough to eat."
One of his eyebrows rose. "Why is it when I tell you that, you look ready to bolt for the door?"
She braced her hands on her hips. "I do not," she said, indignant. "At least not anymore.
I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].
We stayed like that, him watching me crying, for as long as we could stand it. Then he took a couple of paces away. The room needed a window for him to go to and look out of. I could feel the grammar of the moment demanding it.
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?
I do not love famous nightclubs. They make me feel very cheerless and abandoned. Am I applying that word correctly? Abandoned?
Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff.
Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.
i found god in myself
& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
Just start the sentence ... and see what happens. This is how we write.
Sentences are trenches you can take cover in. They are not wildly comfortable. They are not bulletproof. But they can give you the illusion of safety.
There are worlds / in which nothing is adjective, everything noun.
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.