Quotes About Grammar

Claire shook her head as she read the e-mails. She had learned to read and write before the advent of the online age and still felt out of place in the e e cummings world of the Internet, where nothing was capitalized, periods were known as dots, and the normal rules of grammar and punctuation did not apply.

Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.

Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion.

Bazilika Pompozan naziv za crkvu. Uvijek je impozantna. Budžet Nikad u ravnoteži. Dužnosti Zahtijevati ih od drugih, a sam ih se osloboditi. Drugi ih imaju prema nama, ali mi ih nemamo prema drugima. Gramatika Dati da je u?e djeca ve? od najmla?e dobi, jer je to stvar jasna i laka. Gramati?ari Mahom cjepidlake.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

Es handelte sich also nur um Grammatik und nicht um Liebe.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.

Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.

If you love language, it will love you back.

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

You're correcting my grammar now? Yes, I'm helping you to be better. And I expect the same from you. What if I don't want to be better? Then you'll be just a petulant, infinitive-splitting eavesdropper.

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

How can you trust someone who doesn't bother to spell correctly or can't manage to lay out a simple declarative sentence?

L'accent circonflexe est l'hirondelle de l'écriture.

Hyacinth," Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, "do try to speak in complete sentences." Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. "Biscuits. Are. Good." She cocked her head to the side. "Noun. Verb. Adjective." "Hyacinth." "Noun. Verb. Adjective." Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. "Sentence. Is. Correct.

Pero sangriento fin de semana en Medellín no es pleonasmo? Ya ni sé, con el deterioro ambiental y moral se nos deterioró hasta la gramática. ¡Dizque Bogotá la Atenas sudamericana! ¡Dizque éste un país cuidadoso del idioma!