Grammar - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

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

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...

Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French?...

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...

No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to "get a life" by people who, interestingly, display...

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word punctilious {attentive to formality or etiquette} comes from...

The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

Cheers,' she said as I left, 'and don't forget you're seeing Matt and I on Monday.'I thought for a moment she'd said 'matineye', an East End pronunciation of 'matinee'. Was I meant to review it

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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