If you think that grammar is an exact science, get ready for a shock . Grammar is a science, all right- but it is most inexact. There are no inflexible laws, no absolutely hard and fast rules, no unchanging principles. Correctness varies with the times and depends much more on geography, on social class, and on collective human caprice than on the restrictions found in the textbooks.
Grammar follows the speech habits of the majority of educated people - not the other way around. That is the important point to keep in mind.
-Norman Lewis
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Saturday, July 26, 2014
About Grammar
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