English Grammar Quotes

English Grammar Quote of the day

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

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 know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.