I can't stand people that don't know the difference between 'your' and 'you're.' Their so stupid... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Once I start thinking about splitting the skin apart, I literally cannot not do it. I apologize for the double negative, but… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think grammar teaching should start with real examples of language in use: journalism, fiction, songs, ads, instructions, headlines, transcripts of conversations… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I… — Sterling Knight Copy Share Image
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life. — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you ruled the world?” The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: “Even grammar?” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
“Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Not to age myself, but I remember vividly 'Schoolhouse Rock!' and entrust my grammar to it. — Dede Gardner Copy Share Image
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we'd have to go down to… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help. — Tom Duff Copy Share Image