Components Quote by 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

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

— Larry Trask

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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

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

“Grammar and spelling are a part of thought process. If one knows the meaning of words, one may be able to better understand the…

— Sienna McQuillen

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each…

— Anonymous

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic…

— Ferdinand de Saussure