Composing Quote by B. F. Skinner

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

— Robert Breault

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered,…

— Charlton Laird

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All…

— Edward Sapir

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

— Joan Didion

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

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 have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith

“Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them.”

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Ben Aaronovitch

There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the…

— Delphine de Vigan

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

— Michael Crichton