Quotes About Grammar

APOCOPE  (APO'COPE)   n.s.[  figure in grammar,when the last letter or syllable of a word is taken away; as, ingeni for ingenii.

If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.

grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave.

God only inspires the feeling and thought, not language, and grammar.

None of the writings, one can exclude from the grammatical errors and mistakes; it means not a verdict, for disqualification since thought and vision of every writing subject prevail, not the grammar.

The magic, trick, and idiocy of grammar authenticate that, when one adopts, neither and nor in a sentence that already exemplifies, verifies and qualifies its placement and grammar. No matter how since neither and nor, execute as itself, as a sentence, using nor after And as the conjunction; accordingly, mastery of objections collapses automatically.

The mostly, copy edits of copy editors fail to qualify the language, and grammar standards since the copy editors, even change the writing style of the authors; it falls under censorship and destruction of opinion.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order.

A language is a compendium of the history, geography, material and spiritual life, the vices and virtues, not only of those who speak it, but also of those who have spoken it through the centuries. The words, the grammar, the syntax are a chisel that shapes our thought.

The story had a stilted feel, and yet while you were reading you felt totally inside its world, a world where reality mirrored the grammar constraints, and what Slavic 101 couldn't name didn't exist.

that is not just a relative pronoun but also a stand-alone pronoun, a demonstrative adjective, and a conjunction.

It can convert nouns into verbs, and change a description of a panda bear ("Eats shoots and leaves") into a description of Jesse James ("Eats, shoots, and leaves"). No intelligent construction of a text can ignore its punctuation.

British grammarian: "It is clearly desirable that an anaphoric (backward-looking) or cataphoric (forward-looking) pronoun should be placed as near as the construction allows to the noun or noun phrase to which it refers, and in such a manner that there is no risk of ambiguity.

the serial comma—that is, the comma after the penultimate item in a series and just before the conjunction (a, b, and c). Authorities on English usage overwhelmingly recommend using the serial comma to prevent ambiguities.

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.

asyndeton (absence of conjunction) is normally equivalent to syndeton (use of the conjunction and).

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

Reason in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Reason in language- oh what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Learning another cuisine is like learning a language. In the beginning, you know nothing about its most basic rules of grammar. You experience it as a flood of words, or dishes, without system or structure.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.