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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
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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.
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It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly. - Basil Gildersleeve D
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Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.
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Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.
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A gramme is always better than a damn.
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Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
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The poetry of speech.
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When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.
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If Language is a Flower then without Grammar it will not smell.
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The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.
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The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith's for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a particular broad-natured pain ever afterwards associated with grammar.
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Structural linguistrong>sstrong>ticstrong>sstrong> istrong>sstrong> a bitterly divided and unhappy profestrong>sstrong>strong>sstrong>ion, and a large number of itstrong>sstrong> practitionerstrong>sstrong> strong>sstrong>pend many nightstrong>sstrong> drowning their strong>sstrong>orrowstrong>sstrong> in Ouistrong>sstrong>ghian Zodahstrong>sstrong>.
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Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy,
Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.
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Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.
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Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.
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Our sense of what American English is has upended our relationship to articulateness, our approach to writing, and how (and whether) we impart it to the young, our interest in poetry, and our conception of what it is, and even our response to music and how we judge it.
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Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas
a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.
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Why is everyone such a cunt about grammer?
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The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
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Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...
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Language is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need, thought, feeling, and perception itself. The shape of sentences, the song in its syllables, the rhythm of its movement, is the movement of the imagination.
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the autonomy of syntax;
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Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
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Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.
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I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.
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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
[Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
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Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.
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To money, the finest linguist in the world!
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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
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A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.
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The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack of such discipline results in slavery to words rather than mastery of them.
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Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.
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Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.
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Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
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There's grammar in my bones!
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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language ...
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
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In twenty-four years of proofreading, flocks of words flew into my head through the windows of my soul. Some of them stayed on and built nests in there. Why should I not speak like a poet, with a commonwealth of language at my disposal, constantly invigorated by new arrivals?
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Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
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I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.
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The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
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Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
[Carnap's famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]
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Creative wordsmiths, who need to know the canons of pedestrian prose
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The truth is that grammar is always interesting, always useful. Mastering the logic of grammar contributes, in a mysterious way that again evokes some process of osmosis, to the logic of thought.
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Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern.
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Language is the machine of the poet.
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With the right hunch, you could read the inflection of an author's soul on a single comma, in one sentence, and from that one sentence seize the whole book, his life work.
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I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
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Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory ...
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The most lasting thing from my linguistics education is SpecGram..
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Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
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My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical.
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What's strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature.
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When I made some observation about linguistic affinity and heredity and Freud - so obvious, I worried that I sounded like a philistine - Ana gave a startled, gargled laugh. Her already enormous eyes grew even wider. And I was immediately engulfed in a warm, prickly compunction.
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Sheriff Gibbs, the vocabulary of the English language is the wonder of the whole world. Chaucer spoke it and Shakespeare and Winston Churchill. With such a precedent, you could possibly make better use of it," said Mrs. Perley.
"Huh," said Sheriff Gibbs
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NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind
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Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle cousins: word nerds and grammar geeks. The difference is bloodlust.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
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Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
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Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.
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Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.
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Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.
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People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.
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Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.
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The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.
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Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon, February 4, 2015].
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Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
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And that was when I said 'Henry, the placement of the comma depends on whether 'I ate grandmother' or 'I ate, grandmother'.
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discriminate between the principles that improve the quality of prose and the superstitions, fetishes, shibboleths, and initiation ordeals that have been passed down in the traditions of usage. The
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The structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it
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You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
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Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ...
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I'm an Author, not a Grammarist!
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Hamilton, the human word machine,
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I see there is a good deal of grandiloquence in my book - my friends and foes have told me. I think it must be true, for there is a good deal of grandiloquence in me - and in nature also: I saw a sunset last evening that was a gross imposition upon modesty.
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The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.
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Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
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People today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.
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The American punctuation rule sticks in the craw of every computer scientist, logician, and linguist, because any ordering of typographical delimiters that fails to reflect the logical nesting of the content makes a shambles of their work.
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Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.
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Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank.
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Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable.
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Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
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Careful writers pick up the nuances of words by focusing on their makeup and their contexts over the course of tens of thousands of hours of reading.
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The Verbalist, 1894
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If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.
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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
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Grammar is ... the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.