“Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.” KnowsStatesHouseDadBuiltTownsMovedNativeMoved On Author:Gerald McRaney
“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.” KnowsSchoolLanguageMistakeSpeechSentencesNativeSpeakersGrammarSame Mistakes Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk