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" Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society. "

" A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.' "

A. P. Martinich

" Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. "

" At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. "

" Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. "

Marilyn vos Savant

" Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. "

" By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university. "

Christopher Fowler

" 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. "

" Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister. "

" Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. "

" Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy. "

" Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. "

" Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. "

" Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. "

Ferdinand de Saussure

" His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him! "

Richard Harris Barham

" I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that. "

" I had very bad temper tantrums. I was in more grammar schools than there are years of grammar school. I got kicked out of, like, two preschools, a kindergarten. "

" I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there. "

" I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. "

" In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. "

Ferdinand de Saussure

" In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy. "

" In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects. "

" I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar. "

" I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. "

Karl von Frisch

" It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. "

" I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system. "

" I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. "

Maurice Saatchi

" Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song. "

" Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships. "

" Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? "

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