"Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect."

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Source : Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.258, Vintage

Peter Farb

#Mistake Quotes #School Quotes #Speech Quotes

“Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.”
“I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.”
“The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...”
“I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition.”

Source : Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.1, Harper Collins
“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.”
“Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.”
“Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.”
“We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.”

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