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• Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Past, Littles, Kim

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.69, Macmillan

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• A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Escritura, Hombres, Esposa

  "Las obras completas de Edgar Allan Poe".

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• Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Punctuation, Wonderful

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• There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written a bunch of books. The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really.

  Nicholson Baker

  Distance, Struggle, Book

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

  China Mieville

  Sky, Sitting, Sun

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• Mi padre era autodidacta. No era una casa de clase media. Los tenderos son aspirantes. Me pagó un colegio privado. A él se le negó la educación: tuvo una infancia horrible. Consiguió plaza en una escuela de gramática y no le dejaron ir.

  Kate Atkinson

  Padre, Escuela, Clase

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• Los institutos son escuelas públicas sin sodomía.

  Tony Parsons

  School, Public School, Grammar School

  "Man and Boy". Libro de Tony Parsons, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

  Nancy Mairs

  Mujer

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• Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.

  Janet Burroway

  Girl, Fall, Musical

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• Los caballeros literarios, los editores y los críticos creen que saben escribir porque han estudiado gramática y retórica; pero se equivocan garrafalmente. El arte de la composición es tan simple como la descarga de una bala de fusil, y sus obras maestras implican una fuerza infinitamente mayor detrás de ellas.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Arte, Escritura, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.389, Penguin

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• La infancia se distrae durante años con preceptos de gramática infinitamente prolijos, perplejos y oscuros.

  John Amos Comenius

  Years, Boyhood, Obscure

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• There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Children, Knowledge

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• The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Reality, Differences, Important

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

  Noam Chomsky

  Giving, Study, Individual

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• As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.

  Federico Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Past

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• Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

  Federico Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Quality

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• Recuerdo que cuando yo era joven, en el norte, iban a la escuela de gramática niños pequeños: venían de allí grandes lubbers: siempre aprendiendo, y poco aprovechando: aprendiendo sin libro todo, entendiendo dentro del libro poco o nada.

  Roger Ascham

  Educación, Niños, Libro

  Roger Ascham (1815). "Las obras inglesas de Roger Ascham: Preceptor de la reina Isabel", p.254

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• There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don't mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter's behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.

  Ajedrez Stella

  Daughter, Mistake, Mean

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• Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Use, Homosexuality

  Dorothy Parker (2004). "Dorothy Parker en sus propias palabras", Taylor Trade Publishing.

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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.

  Nils Parker

  Substance, Mouths, Nazi

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• La sintaxis es el estudio de los principios y procesos por los que se construyen las oraciones en determinadas lenguas. La investigación sintáctica de una lengua determinada tiene como objetivo la construcción de una gramática que pueda considerarse un dispositivo de algún tipo para producir las oraciones de la lengua analizada.

  Noam Chomsky

  Goal, Principles, Analysis

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “Syntactic Structures”, p.11, Walter de Gruyter

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• If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

  Anne Hull

  Medicine, Giving, Labyrinth

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• I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.

  John Updike

  Teacher, Husband, School

  "Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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• My goal was to reach this literary crowd, but I didn't want to alienate my core fan base. I grew up speaking that language, this isn't put on. I can go back and forth; it's almost like being bilingual. But I'm not college educated; I don't know rules of grammar.

  Rude Jude

  College, Goal, Fans

  "'Can you imagine the pain? I understand the pain'". Interview with Jane Marie, logger.believermag.com. August 14, 2015.

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• Fui a una escuela de gramática muy militantemente republicana y, bajo su influencia, empecé a rebelarme contra el establishment, basándome en la sencilla regla empírica, muy satisfactoria para un niño de diez años, de que irlandés es igual a bueno, inglés es igual a malo.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Escuela, Años, Pulgares

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