Quotes About Grammar

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

In Turkish we have a special tense that allows us to distinguish hearsay from what we've seen with our own eyes; when we are relating dreams, fairy tales, or past events we could not have witnessed, we use this tense.

I was thinking,' said Crusher dreamily [...] 'about LANGUAGE and how in English two negatives make a positive, but in spriteish, a double negative is still a negative. However there is NO language in which two positives make a negative ...' 'Yeah right, like THAT'S the problem,' said Xar, sarcastically. 'I hadn't thought of that!' said Crusher in gentle surprise [...]. 'You're correct, Car. Yeah, right IS a statement in English where two positives make a negative...

get more stupider.

be the half-day at the Grammar

my war on commas. They are a pestilence. They must be stopped.

I don't know what I would do without you. I don't know what I will do without you. I learned about the future tense, how anxiety is encoded into our sentences, our conditionals, our thoughts, how worry is encoded into language itself, into grammar.

it is only when one writes a book that one realizes the true power of MSWord, from grammar checks to replace-alls.

You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, and lifeless hands.

You know you're a language nerd when you have a strong opinion about serial commas.

Save the bees, the trees, and the Oxford comma.

As to the Adjective: When in doubt, strike it out.

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

It will be seen that the Infinitive is a kind of noun with certain features of the verb, especially that of taking an object (when the verb is Transitive) and adverbial qualifiers. In short, the Infinitive is a Verb-Noun.

Since the Object of a verb in the active voice becomes the Subject of the passive form, it follows that only Transitive Verbs can be used in the Passive Voice, because an Intransitive Verb has no Object.

His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.

We come to teach you a lesson, boy," Shitkicker #1 said, standing to Straker's right. "It's we've come," Straker said. "Now I've just taught you a lesson.

Comic book should be written as one word. So from now on, I want you to remember that. I never want to see the word comicbook written as two words. They are not funny books. They are not comic books, they are comicbooks! Remember that, or incur my wrath.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

rather split his trousers than an infinitive.

As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is faultless, except in three particulars. And what are they? A general deficiency of subject, a total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar.

Nouns and verbs hold the power but syntax casts the spell.