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Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.
Not to age myself, but I remember vividly 'Schoolhouse Rock!' and entrust my grammar to it.
A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.
I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.
His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.
I have a very fun husband. He's managed to hang on to every person he's known since grammar school.
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.
I am one of three sisters and went to an all-girls grammar school so I'm used to being around girls.
I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.
I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.
I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.
Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.
I was a cheerleader in grammar school. There were no cheerleaders in that school I made them have them.
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background.
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
I should be better with my grammar and set a better example for my kids. Just not sure that ain't gonna happen.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.
My wife saw a mug somewhere that says, 'I'm silently correcting your grammar.' I think that is perfect thing for me.
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
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.
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.
I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.
If I'd been from a different background, I could have gone to a grammar school, I suppose. I might have been a different person.
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?
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 am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!
Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.
Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.
I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.
From my early training days, I am an avid listener of heavy music which is laced with proper diction and effective use of grammar of music.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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.
Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.