Grammar Quotes

312 Grammar quotes by 247 unique authors

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance,… — Ferdinand de Saussure
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 ago,… — Robert Burchfield
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics… — Terry Eagleton
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. — Susie Orbach
There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake. — Toby Young
Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar… — Nina Bawden
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every… — Anne Carson
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and… — Beverly Cleary
Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did… — Steve Coogan
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? — Nigel Farage
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

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