grammar

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

I won't lie!Probably from books you have saw that I'm not good at English, probably because I don't live in such country which this language is important or let's say to be native. But as for now I can't do a lot of for that!

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.

Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.

Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.That gives my soul its melodies.

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we__e all constantly correcting each other__ grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they__e going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that__ precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

A woman who is praying and a woman who is having fun, they both say " Oh My God", the only difference is how they pronounce it.

Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use.

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.

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.

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

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions.

Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected.

Deleuze and Guattari have been totally misunderstood because the following has been wrenched from context: "Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political." (112)They are NOT advocating for this sort of prescriptive approach to language; rather, they are describing the social system around language--how language is a political tool. Why persist in quoting them as though they are promoting some sort of linguistic purity?