A Commonplace Book

Category: agreement...

  • making an agreement to end an argument as soon as one person starts to blame the other
  • We scarcely find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.
  • Harmony seldom makes a headline.
  • Disagreement makes agreement more precious.
  • Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements. (W. Erhard)
  • the earliest use of 'agree' is recorded from Chaucer in c1374 and meant to please or be pleased
  • agreement as an English word, dates to 1400
  • agreement in grammar means that sentence parts match - subjects agreeing with verbs and pronouns agreeing with antecedents

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