Elements Quote by Larry Trask

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

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

— Joan Didion

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

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 chief characteristic of English grammar is the way words are arranged within sentences, and the technical term for this process is syntax. It”

— David Crystal

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

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

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

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

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