Best 199 quotes in «grammar quotes» category

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

Writing well is more than mechanics, but it is not less.

Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen. Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language. That gives my soul its melodies.

You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better.

You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not so... You would expect that proofreaders and copy editors would pick this sort of stuff up even if the writers of such embarrassing English do not, but many of them seem as illiterate as the writers they are trying to bail out.

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

Youir're doing this wrong.

Your expression of an inner feeling of love or message in words does not need the grammar.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

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

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.

FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say.

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

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

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

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

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

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

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

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.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

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

I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

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

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

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

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.

people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

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.

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

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

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.