Borrowed Quote by Charlton Laird

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

— Charlton Laird

The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

— Larry Trask

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

— Bill Bryson

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…

— Robert Burchfield

I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went to public…

— Trevor Paglen

“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

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

— James Nicoll

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Hugh Gaitskell

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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