The chief characteristic of English grammar is the way…

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much…

— Robert Breault

“Not until 1761 did any grammarian settle on the eight that became the canonical parts of speech in English. He was the same man…

— Bryan A. Garner

“English grammar and composition is difficult even for the English, but worse and worse for a Welsh boy. He speaks, reads, writes, and he…

— Richard Llewellyn

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years…

— Robert Burchfield

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole…

— John Muir

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a…

— Bill Bryson

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that…

— Roald Dahl

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

— Bill Bryson

“I believe that no great lyric poet ever speaks in the so-called “proper” language of his or her time. Emily Dickinson didn’t write in…

— Ilya Kaminsky

“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

— William Safire

For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules,…

— Bill Bryson

“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said…

— John Updike

“The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp…

— Geoffrey Pullum

“I don't know anything but the simplest rules of English grammar, and I seldom consciously apply them. Nevertheless, I instinctively write correctly and, I…

— Issac Asimov