Logo
A double negative is a no-no. - Author unknown

A double negative is a no-no. – Author unknown

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Grammar
category

From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. After dinner, the men moved into the living room. I explained to the professor that this was Rosss way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth. – James Thurber

Category:
Grammar
[T]he flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar… – Constance Hale, Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose, 1999

Category:
Grammar

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. – Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Category:
Grammar

Shatner commas: Oddly placed commas that don’t seem to serve any actual purpose in punctuation, but make it look like you should take odd pauses, as William Shatner does when delivering lines. – Author unknown

Category:
Grammar

Random Quotes

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Category:
good

Its pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record. – Mac Davis

Category:
amazing

The earth is mankinds ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, its as though one of Gods checks has bounced. – Gilbert Adair

Category:
Tragedy

The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little. – Kevin Rudd

Category:
relationship