Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage.
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.
I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.
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. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.
Grammar is a piano I play by ear.
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
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.
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
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