#grammar

Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

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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

#different #general #grammar #inscriptions #instance

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

#correctly #excellent #grammar #like #pronounce

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#grammar-humor #humor

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses. ↗

— David Baker

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It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me. ↗

— Bo Derek

#am #difficult #discouraging #discovered #expected

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women. ↗

— Julie Walters

#baby boomers #bbc #boomers #editors #education

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. ↗

— E. B. White

#faith #grammar #trick #writing

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#face #felt #grammar #grammar school #had

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

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