You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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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.
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Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
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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.
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Your column is a pack of damn lies, a reader wrote to William Safire about a political piece he did in the New York Times. Brushing aside the stern criticism, Safire immediately debated whether it should be damn, the way it sounds, or damned, as the past participle of the verb, to damn. The ed on some words is simply slipping away, he points out. We're seeing more barbecue chicken, whip cream and corn beef. His conclusion: Ears are sloppy and eyes are precise; accordingly, speech can be loose but writing should be tight.
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Let school-masters puzzle their brain. With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;...
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.
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Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
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I can think of many amusing parallels. For example, 'the Borough of ... announces: Miss Jones, the splendid principal of our grammar school, h...
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
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There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar—if o...
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Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
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Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.
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Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
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I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
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No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
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Life is like a grammar lesson. You find the past perfect and the present tense.
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Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
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The old saying of Buffon's that style is the man himself is as near the truth as we can get—but then most men mistake grammar for style, as ...
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Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
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When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses.
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When money talks, nodody pays any attention to the grammar.
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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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