Identifying Quote by Robertson Davies

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

— Joan Didion

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

— Frederick Lenz

I know what the structure of the language is.

— Kurt Loder

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

“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

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

— Anonymous

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Larry Trask