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Quotes about Grammar

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Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1707 - 1784)
No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them.
Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Matt LauerLack of proper response by officials on 9-11 may have cost unnecessary lives.
- (Matt's grammar lesson?)
Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is a rule up with which I shall not put.
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