English Grammar quotes

English Grammar

11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author

"Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple."

John Muir
John Muir Naturalist, Writer

"Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory."

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