Grammar Quotes
On rules, schooling, and the discipline of learning a language.
These grammar quotes move between memories of grammar school itself, including introducing cheerleading where there had been none, and the adult work of learning Italian syntax and conjugation from a purist Act approach.
In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I was a cheerleader in grammar school. There were no cheerleaders in that school I made them have them.
Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.
About Quotes
His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
Act Quotes
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.
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.
Affluent Quotes
A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
Age Quotes
Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background.
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One speaker traces grammar school study straight through to a medical faculty at university. For related early education, see Age quotes.
