Quotes About Grammar

The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for that. They just see me as a normal guy.

That's not true, not grammar, and it doesn't even rhyme properly,' said Snufkin, and the subject was dropped.

about parataxis and hypotaxis (they either had something

The proper use of commas is often more art than science.

You may or may not have noticed an overall degradation of the language, and a proliferation of errors of spelling and grammar in even the most official documents?

She had spent considerable time writing the letter. The younger generation, with all of its tweets and Facebook and cryptic texts and emails where no actual language or grammar were involved, would never have understood taking the time

It's so nice to be able to end a sentence with a preposition when it's easier.

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We need an inflation-generative grammar.

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

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Wir brauchen keine Dichter mit guter Grammatik. Zu guter Grammatik fehlt uns Geduld.

Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar--the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?

There's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

It was a trick no one expected of an American, the combination of a good ear, a good memory, and an understanding of the rules of grammar, so that I appeared more of a prodigy than I was.

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Grammar includes all the principles that guide the structure of sentences and paragraphs: syntax-the flow of language; usage-how we use words in different situations; and rules-predetermined boundaries and patterns that govern language in a particular society. Mechanics, on the other hand, are ways we punctuate whatever we are trying to say in our writing: punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing, formatting.

I spent the rest of the workday on routine paperwork, snarling at misplaced files and seething at the stupidity of everyone else's report writing--when did Grammar die?

Rhyme said, "'Game' is a noun. I don't accept it as a verb. But I will concede that many people use it. The Jargonites, I call them.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," which, Mr. Holcombe pointed out, contained every letter in the alphabet. I checked, and he turned out to be right.