Accord Quote by Ernest Sosa

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

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

— Joan Didion

By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously,…

— Noam Chomsky

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Larry Trask

“In order to speak and write the English language correctly, it is imperative that the fundamental principles of the Grammar be mastered, for no…

— Joseph Devlin

The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new…

— Noam Chomsky

Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of…

— Noam Chomsky