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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. WhiteGrammar - 2
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
Grammar - 3
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
Mark TwainGrammar - 4
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston ChurchillGrammar - 5
From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. 'After dinner, the men moved into the living room'. I explained to the professor that this was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
James ThurberGrammar -
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan DidionGrammar - 7
Grammar is the grave of letters.
Elbert HubbardGrammar - 8
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MolièreGrammar - 9
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl SandburgGrammar - 10
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig WittgensteinGrammar - 11
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.
Ernest HemingwayGrammar - 12
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.
Edgar Allan PoeGrammar, Punctuation - 13
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.
Henry David ThoreauGrammar - 14
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Robert FrostGrammar
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