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 Marina Warner
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The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.
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- Author Kate McGahan
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...why, when people write words do they capitalize “I”? Why not capitalize “You” too? For You are as important as I am. It’s hard for me to understand the human ways.
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- Author Georgette Heyer
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People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
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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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- Author Shaun David Hutchinson
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So what? Who gives a shit who’s banging who?” “Whom,” Jaila said. “What?” “Who’s banging whom.” Tino tensed. “I don’t need a fucking grammar lesson.
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- Author Molière
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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- Author David Chiles
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It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. NetworkEtiquette.net
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