Logo
A pronoun... will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: t

A pronoun… will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: they does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays. – Karen Elizabeth Gordon, “Agreements,” The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimat

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

You know you’re a language nerd when you have a strong opinion about serial commas. – Author unknown

Category:
Grammar

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Category:
Grammar

Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t. – Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. “The Mudge,” from “Th

Category:
Grammar

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Category:
Grammar

Random Quotes

Im so critical of myself. Im actually really, really proud of the film. Its really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive. – Giovanni Ribisi

Category:
cool

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Committees

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. – Anatole France

Category:
Courage

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. – Thomas Huxley

Category:
Science