Parts Of Speech Quotes

• The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

  Thomas Paine

  America, Liberty, Syntax

  The Rights of Man pt. 1 (1791)

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• The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Inspiration, Vocabulary, Adjectives

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• The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, World, Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

  Eleanor Catton

  Thinking, Speech, Facts

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• All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

  Joseph Devlin

  Class, Adjectives, Verbs

  Joseph Devlin (2014). “How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version”, p.5, Full Moon Publications

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• The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Believe, Writing

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.162

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• Each part
  of speech a spark
  awaiting redemption, each
  a virtue, a power
  in abeyance.

  Denise Levertov

  Redemption, Speech, Sparks

  Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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• An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Speech, Aspersion

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 3, sc. 3

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• One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Speech

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.62, Penguin UK

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• I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Rip, Swings, Speech

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• I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Book, Speech, Alphabet

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• I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Art, Mean

  Letter to Leopold Mozart, 8 Nov. 1777

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• In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Eye

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