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 no evidence of having lives themselves. — Lynne Truss Eats, Shoots &...

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 same original root as punctuation. — Lynne Truss Eats, Shoots &...

The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. — Lynne Truss Eats, Shoots &...

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 — Sebastian Faulks

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