229 Quotes About Grammar

  • Author Margaret Atwood
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    Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

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  • Author Joe Dunthorne
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    She whispers in my ear: ‘"Tell me that you wan' fuck me hard, make me sweat." In the excitement, she misses out a word. "I want to fuck you so hard that your body drips with sweat," I say, grammatically.

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  • Author Donna Tartt
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    What about school then? Favorite subjects?”“History, I guess. English too,” I said when he didn’t answer. “But English is going to be really boring for the next six weeks―we stopped doing literature and went back to the grammar book and now we’re diagramming sentences.

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