Entraînement à la Grammaire Anglaise à Distance

1. 'No one should be forced to live like animals just to cross into the United States.' (13.06.2018)

— Aridaid Rodríguez, an American citizen in Mexico who often walks past Central American families seeking asylum as she crosses the border for work

2. 'Some people can't float. He cannot float.' (11.06.2018)

—Anne Romney, Mitt Romney's wife of 49 years, on why her husband is so impressed with water polo players

3. 'If you want to catch a cat you have to stay up all night — that's just the name of the game.' (02.01.2018)

— Jennifer Petruska, a resident of Santa Rosa, Calif., and a self-described insomniac, who spends her nights tracking and trapping pet cats who went into hiding during recent wildfires

4. 'I thought about what it would be like to be an Aboriginal person in that situation and I guess that helped me. They might feel left out. They might feel upset. Sad.' (13.09.2018)

—Harper Nielsen, 9, explaining that she refuses to stand for the Australian anthem because she feels its lyrics deliberately exclude indigenous Australians.

5. 'If they're not able to purchase their first drink of alcohol, then how are we allowed to buy guns at the age of 18 or 19? Obviously whatever we have going on, it's not working.' (16.02.2018)

— Lyliah Skinner, a survivor of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla.

6. 'Trying to find the middle of the bridge. I have to be careful. There are too many people watching. (16.04.04)

—Capt. Robert D. Jones, guiding the Queen Mary 2 under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to dock in New York.

7. 'If export markets get shut off, I could see us getting to the point where we're dumping our milk in the fields. It'll be a big ripple effect through the state.' (25.06.2018)

— Jeff Schwager, president of a longtime cheese producer in Wisconsin

8. 'If the individual has his unhampered say in music, he may manage to have it in other fields,' he wrote. 'Dictators should be suspicious of swing.' (16.01.2018)

— NYT critic commenting on the liberating force of music in a dark era of totalitarian ideologies, in an article reporting on the first swing concert City by Benny Goodman, the jazz clarinetist, at Carnegie Hall in New York.

9. 'If the individual has his unhampered say in music, he may manage to have it in other fields,' he wrote. 'Dictators should be suspicious of swing.' (16.01.2018)

— NYT critic commenting on the liberating force of music in a dark era of totalitarian ideologies, in an article reporting on the first swing concert City by Benny Goodman, the jazz clarinetist, at Carnegie Hall in New York.