Bad Grammar Quotes

• He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

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  Jorge Luis Borges

  Made   Grammar   Periods  

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

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  Mary McCarthy

  Alarms   Doe   Levels  

  Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt

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• Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

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  Dave Barry

  Painful Death   America   Causes  

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• Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

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  Joan Didion

  Music   Power   English Grammar  

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 16, 2011

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• We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

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  Andy Stanley

  Hurt   Painful   Grammar  

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.24, Multnomah

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• This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

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  C. S. Lewis

  Mean   Our World   Lions  

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• I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

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  Benjamin Disraeli

  Talking   Luck   Grammar  

  Said while correcting proofs of his last Parliamentary speech, 31 March 1881, in Robert Blake 'Disraeli' (1966) ch. 32

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• What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

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  Dave Barry

  War   Humorous   Painful Death  

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• What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

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  George Eliot

  Omission   Sublime   Poet  

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

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