Grammar Quotes - Page 3

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.

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

scales are the grammar of music.

It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in grammar, then, one must both produce what is grammatical and produce it grammatically, that is, in accord with knowledge of grammar in oneself.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

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