Consistent Quote by Edward Sapir

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

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

— Alan Perlis

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years…

— B. F. Skinner

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

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

— Anonymous

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant…

— Gilles Deleuze

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

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

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that…

— Roald Dahl

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith