Grammar Quotes

312 Grammar quotes by 247 unique authors

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from… — Nigel Farage
Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of… — David Crystal
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement. — Jonathan Lethem
Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but… — Charlton Laird
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most… — Charlton Laird
The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday… — Charlton Laird
Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the… — Peter Farb
Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly… — Peter Farb
Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life… — Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first… — Henry David Thoreau
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. — Guillaume Apollinaire
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language. — Ernst Mayr
We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions... In our serious… — Daniel H. Pink
Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of… — John Muir
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow,… — Dave Barry
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in… — Chuck Thompson
There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors. — Vanna Bonta
Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help. — Tom Duff
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem… — Mark Crispin Miller
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as… — Fred Frith
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. — Robert Frost
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. — Oliver Goldsmith

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