Sentence examples for old grammar from inspiring English sources

Weren't you an old grammar school boy, though?

"This is an old grammar term," he tells me.

Unless the maven studies that old grammar, he'll have one less career.

Graduating in the middle ranks of the class of 1837, Thoreau searched for a teaching job and secured one at his old grammar school in Concord.

During a recent visit to his old grammar school, the Blackhawks' president, John McDonough, a Chicago native, said he was approached by a girl who asked him why her favorite player, Byfuglien, was no longer on the team.

That could, in effect, recreate the old grammar schools, which in past decades competed head-on with private schools.The Conservatives also propose a voucher, worth on average £5,500, usable at private schools that charge no more than this.

We've got rid of those horrid old grammar-school oiks Thatcher and Major and brought in some public-school boys.

This harks back to the novel's opening vignette, a short description of an archivist who, with a handkerchief 'mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world … loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality'.

The softly spoken financial analyst, who spent four years working in Mainland China, recalls the day he landed at the airport and was greeted by an old grammar-school friend.

Jim Tomlinson, now the Bonar professor of modern history at Dundee University, "was arrested at the demonstration as a 16-year-old grammar school boy".

"The age-old grammar-translation method of teaching Latin and Greek is giving way to more imaginative and innovative approaches," he wrote in a 1973 article supporting such innovation.