Quotes About Grammar

I heard of the Reverend somebody Stoddart gravely proposing 'Poetry for the Million' to his audience; he assuring them that 'poets made a mystery of their art,' but that in fact nothing except an English grammar, and a rhyming dictionary, and some instruction about counting on the fingers, was necessary in order to make a poet of any man! This is a fact. And to this extent has the art, once called divine, been desecrated among the educated classes of our country.

But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently. You will try every day of your life. Order is a certain clumsy grammar, a mnemonic device. Order just means: try to use verbs. Consider the tense. The poetry will follow.

If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

Concerning speech and words, the consideration of them hath produced the science of grammar. For man still striveth to reintegrate himself in those benedictions, from which by his fault he hath been deprived; and as he hath striven against the first general curse by the invention of all other arts, so hath he sought to come forth of the second general curse (which was the confusion of tongues) by the art of grammar.

I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

I should be better with my grammar and set a better example for my kids. Just not sure that ain't gonna happen.

If I'd been from a different background, I could have gone to a grammar school, I suppose. I might have been a different person.

A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.

I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?

I give haircut to my son. I have made him learn mathematics table. I have also made him learn some spellings and grammar. I feel lockdown has made me more responsible as a mom.

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No one ever went to prison because of bad grammar, but the prisons are full of people who are there because of emotional illiteracy.

I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know 'No, he couldn't have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.'

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Every director has his own syntax, his own grammar, his own words.

No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them.

All the misunderstandings that tie the world up and keep people apart were quivering before me at once, waiting for me to untangle them, explain them, and I couldn't. I didn't know the words, the grammar, the syntax.

Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.