grammar

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. NetworkEtiquette.net

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet.

... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English." Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right.

#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.

Grammar is politics by other means.

You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better.

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

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

Grammar is like a strive for perfection. It's useless really.

Perfect grammar--persistent, continuous, sustained--is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it.

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

Stupid English.""English isn't stupid," I say."Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me.""Why not?""He says lunch isn't a subject."I glance at him. "It isn't.""Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?

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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean __ore people died_ don__ say __ortality rose.

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.