"George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar."
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"The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation."
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". . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest."
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"Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday."
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"Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar."
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"Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound."
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"I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right."
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