English grammar Quote by David Crystal

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Larry Trask

Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has…

— Noam Chomsky

As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative -…

— Frederick Lenz

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

— Frederick Lenz

Grammar is what gives sense to language … sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business…

— David Crystal

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

— Joan Didion

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken…

— Muriel Barbery

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines…

— Noam Chomsky

“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 is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

— Anthony Burgess

Grammar is politics by other means.

— Donna J. Haraway