Asking Quote by Bill Bryson

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

— Bill Bryson

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

— Robert Breault

Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the…

— Charlton Laird

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

— Steven Pinker

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

— Hugh Gaitskell

Every time I talk to Latin players coming up in the system, I tell them, 'You need to learn English. There's a lot of…

— Carlos Correa

Latin is an international language.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

— Jerry Scott

Grammar is politics by other means.

— Donna J. Haraway

“A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having…

— Charles Dickens

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

— Sanford I. Weill

I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

— Rich Brian