Quotes About Grammar

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

She's never met an adjective or adverb she didn't like.

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.

All I know about grammar is its infinite power.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

Money doesn't grow on trees but it speaks beautifully without grammar.

I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!

Penny brought home a paper with her teacher's marking on it, and all I can say is the man comes across like an illiterate ass. He writes don't end a sentence with a proposition. No, that's not a typo, and yes, you can end a sentence with a preposition.

Somebody how wouldn't judge another for prepositions they dangle, or their run-on sentences, and who in turn wouldn't be judged for the snobbery of their language etymology inclinations.

NOTICIARIO DE UN COLEGIAL MELANCÓLICO NOMINATIVO: la nieve GENITIVO: de la nieve DATIVO: a o para la nieve ACUSATIVO: a la nieve VOCATIVO: ¡oh la nieve! ABLATIVO: con la nieve de la nieve en la nieve por la nieve sin la nieve sobre la nieve tras la nieve La luna tras la nieve Y estos pronombres personales extraviados por el río y esta conjugación tristísima perdida entre los árboles BUSTER KEATON

In short, what you are doing is very beautiful but grammatically it doesn't change a thing. At the moment when you most appear to be a united voi, a second person plural, you are two tu's, more separate and circumscribed than before.

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

In the eight-case system there is a tendency for precision of function while in the five-case system there is more room to see an author using a particular form to convey a fuller meaning than that of one function.

Case is the inflectional variation in a noun7 that encompasses various syntactical functions or relationships to other words. Or, put more simply, case is a matter of form rather than function. Each case has one form but many functions.

American Sign Language—ASL—is a language unto itself, with its own syntax and grammar. Adjectives follow nouns, as in Romance languages.

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.

In our world, Darija said, throwing aside the chapter she was marking up, there will be no semicolons.

You don't have to say anything if you don't want to. Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas—a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

Before. b-e-f-o-r-e, not B4. We speak English. Not bingo.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.