Grammar Quotes

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.

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.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college girls are mean.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

Grammar is the grave of letters.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

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!

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

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

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

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.

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.