Quotes About Grammatical

writing for a couple of months after a woman accused her of committing the grammatical sin

Her diction was formal, her sentence structure entirely grammatical—indeed, you could almost hear the commas, semicolons and full stops.

The writers of these reports used typewriters and carbon paper, making the correction of mistakes difficult, and they were often better at fighting their ships than writing reports, so there are a good many misspellings and grammatical errors in these pages.

Alas, Madame Straus, there are no certainties, even grammatical ones.… [O]nly that which bears the imprint of our choice, our taste, our uncertainty, our desire and our weakness can be beautiful.

Bible expositor J. Dwight Pentecost, one of my former professors at Dallas Theological Seminary, said that "the literal method of interpretation is that method that gives to each word the same exact basic meaning it would have in normal, ordinary, customary usage, whether employed in writing, speaking, or thinking. It is called the grammatical-historical method to emphasize the fact that the meaning is to be determined by both grammatical and historical considerations."1

On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.

Typos, fall not under the grammatical discussions; however, imbecile and ignoramus perform that, which surpass and prevail, nothing.

The last-antecedent canon may be superseded by another grammatical convention: A pronoun that is the subject of a sentence and does not have an antecedent in that sentence ordinarily refers to the subject of the preceding sentence. And it almost always does so when it is the word that begins the sentence.

Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES FAG, which, aside from being a grammatical nightmare, is absolutely ridiculous. So I'm changing it to 'God Hates Baguettes.' It's tough to disagree with that. Everybody hates baguettes.

As users of English we often need a grammatical device to make reference to the way a particular event unfolds in time. This is called aspect.

People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life.

My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical.

Chinese, in contrast, lacks a subjunctive and any other simple grammatical construction that directly expresses a counterfactual.

Expository preaching is the communication of a biblical concept, derived from and transmitted through a historical, grammatical, and literary study of a passage in its context, which the Holy Spirit first applies to the personality and experience of the preacher, then through the preacher, applies to the hearers.

How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrate it down to manageable proportions, and then force it through the eye of a grammatical needle one word at a time.

He ain't my friend,' Harry said. 'Not no more, he ain't.' Strax leaned across to Jenny. 'At what age do these cubs become grammatical?' he demanded. 'Depends,' she told him. 'At what age do Sontarans become pacifists?

Ik denk.' Nietzsche trekt deze bewering, gedicteerd door een grammaticale conventie die eist dat elk werkwoord een onderwerp heeft, in twijfel. In feite, zegt hij, 'komt een gedachte wanneer 'zij' wil, zodanig dat het een vervalsing van de feiten is om te zeggen: het subject 'ik' is de voorwaarde van het predikaat 'denk'. Een gedachte komt tot de filosoof 'van buitenaf, uit de hoogte of uit de diepte, als gebeurtenissen of bliskemschichten die voor hem bestemd zijn'.

Really,' she exclaimed, stumping into the kitchen and plonking herself down on the nearest chair, 'this place is getting worse than Nightmare Abbey. Whatever next?' A grammatical purist might have wondered why Miss Bentley hadn't said 'whoever' rather than 'whatever' but the former headteacher belonged to the Superintendent Leeyes school of taking bad news as a personal affront rather than as an occasion for sympathy for the victim.

A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book means thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically and actually, — whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.

añoraba a su anterior editor, que decía preferir la novela imperfecta de un escritor con talento, que la novela perfecta de un escritor mediocre. En la obra de un escritor con talento puedes hallar una frase, una sola, que te cambiela vida. En un escritor mediocre lo más que podrás encontrar es corrección gramatical.

First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.

Reading the Koran on its own terms, trying to interpret it without resorting to commentaries, is a difficult and questionable exercise because of the nature of the text-its allusive and referential style and its grammatical and logical discontinuities, as well as our lack of sure information about its origins and the circumstances of its composition. Often such a reading seems arbitrary and necessarily inconclusive. G. R. Hawting

Now I had to contend not only with pornography-syndicate conspiracies, but also a succubus of the White Court. Or maybe more than one, which for grammatical reasons I hoped was not the case.

Scripture to its literal, grammatical, historical sense.