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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. (King Stephen)
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements. (King Stephen)
Grammar is the grave of letters. (King Stephen)
Grammar, which can govern even Kings. (King Stephen)
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. (King Stephen)
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. (King Stephen)
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. (King Stephen)
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. (King Stephen)
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. (King Stephen)
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. (King Stephen)
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. (King Stephen)
“American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm” (King Stephen)
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