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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.”

Writing Believe Lying Force Secret Style Speech Conscious Verbs Adjectives Nouns Pedigree Parts Of Speech

Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“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.”

Thinking Facts Speech Accused Sly Supple Adverbs Parts Of Speech

Author:Eleanor Catton

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

Virtue Speech Redemption Sparks Parts Of Speech

Book:The poet in the world

Source: The poet in the world

“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).”

People Men Different States Might Speech Various Discourse Parts Of Speech

Book:Papers and Journals

Source: Papers and Journals

“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.”

Language Class Speech Nine Divided Articles English Language Verbs Adjectives Nouns Conjunctions Pronouns Adverbs Prepositions Parts Of Speech

Book:How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version

Source: How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version

“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.”

Want Speech Logic Mark Fingers Passionate Hips Swings Quotations Limbs Rip Blazing Quotation Marks Parts Of Speech

Author:Jeffrey McDaniel

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

World Mind Humans Whole Speech Metaphor Human Mind Parts Of Speech

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“An aspersion upon my parts of speech!”

Speech Clever Aspersion Parts Of Speech

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.”

Inspiration Speech Vocabulary Bananas Adjectives Parts Of Speech

Author:Clifton Fadiman

“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.”

“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.”

Book Written Speech All Things Sentences Covered Alphabet Punctuation Parts Of Speech

Author:Brian P. Cleary

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

America Language Liberty Speech Constitution Positive Atheism Constructs Grammar Syntax American Constitution Parts Of Speech

Author:Thomas Paine