Grammar Quotes

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

scales are the grammar of music.

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.

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

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

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

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

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it was a bit of an adventure, to say the least.

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.

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

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

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

The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

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

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

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

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.

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

In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

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

Perfect grammar--persistent, continuous, sustained--is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.

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Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction