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    American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

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    . . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

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    A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

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    Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

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    A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

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    Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

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    Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

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    Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

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    english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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    Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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    Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

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    Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

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    Grammar is the grave of letters.

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    Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

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    Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.

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    Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

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    Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

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    Forget grammar and think about potatoes

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    FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say.

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    Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

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    Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.

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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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    He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

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    people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

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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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    I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

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    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.

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    I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!

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    I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

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    I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

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    I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

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    I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

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    It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in grammar, then, one must both produce what is grammatical and produce it grammatically, that is, in accord with knowledge of grammar in oneself.

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    Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

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    Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

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    photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

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    Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.

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    Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.

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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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    The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

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    Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations.

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    Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

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    Statistics is the grammar of science.

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    There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

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    The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

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    The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

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    The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

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    When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

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    Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

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    The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.