Month: October 2018
Thomas Jefferson on Grammar
“Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to in complaisance to the purists of New England. But where by small grammatical negligences the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.”
—Thomas Jefferson,
quoted in American Sphinx (p. 229)
by Joseph B. Ellis