229 Quotes About Grammar

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

Whatever language Death speaks is not ours; and most of us spend no time acquiring the complex grammar, in which every verb is irregular and only the past tense obtains, until it is too late

None of the writings, one can exclude from the grammatical errors and mistakes; it means not a verdict, for disqualification since thought and vision of every writing subject prevail, not the grammar.

If plain run is good enough for I, you, we, they, why isn't it good enough for he, she, it? Because we have no choice in the matter. The decision was made by those who fixed our grammar at a certain stage of its evolution, and their decision will probably stand forever.

Grammar belongs in the realm of habit--learned to the point where we are unconscious in our use of it, as we learned it in childhood. Thus to require a choice between 'who' and 'whom' at the beginning of a sentence or between 'I' and 'me' after 'be' or 'than' or 'as' is to invite a centipede to attend to the sequence of his legs in motion.

Grammatical correctness, after all, has a powerful symbolic value: getting your language right implies that you can obey rules and respect authority.

Punctuation marks are well-mannered symbols that lead us around like a faithful butler; remove them, and we dance free form ...

What would you do if you ruled the world?” The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: “Even grammar?

Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer.