My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical.

Sharon Green

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I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.

Rainbow Rowell

Tags: letters grammar-humor grammar eleanor-and-park



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The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment.

Roy Peter Clark

Tags: learning definition grammar glamour enchantment etymology



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But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a Bat Turn, a 180-degree spin int the Batmobile. Make that a But Turn.

Roy Peter Clark

Tags: language grammar batman spin turn but batmobile but-turn



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Although I don't use it nearly so much anymore, I've decided, five years down the line, that Mr. Treadstone's verdict on 'kind of' was kind of unjust. Obviously, this phrase can be redundant or reductive, or just plain stupid in some sentences, but not in all sentences. I wouldn't, for example, use a sentence like 'Antarctica is kind of cold', or 'Hitler was kind of evil'. But sometimes, things aren't black and white. And sometimes 'kind of' expresses this better than any other phrase. For example, when I tell you that my mother was kind of peculiar, I can think of no better way of putting this.

Gavin Extence

Tags: grammar-humor grammar kind-of



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The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it.

Geoffrey K. Pullum

Tags: style grammar elements-of-style strunck



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You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not so... You would expect that proofreaders and copy editors would pick this sort of stuff up even if the writers of such embarrassing English do not, but many of them seem as illiterate as the writers they are trying to bail out.

Stephen King

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I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

Dorothy Kilgallen

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Moods are adjectives of the grammar of life.

Raheel Farooq

Tags: life grammar moods adjectives



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Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tags: christianity religion language spelling etiquette internet rules excuses commandments grammar social-networking twitter tweet social-networks the-ten-commandments



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