229 Quotes About Grammar

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank.

I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me.

Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion.

... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English." Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right.

What the hell was it about e-mail that made everybody forget the stuff they learned in second grade, like capitalizing I and proper names, and using periods? Hello? We all learned how to do this less than five years out of diapers!

Take what the British call the "greengrocer's apostrophe," named for aberrant signs advertising cauliflower's or carrot's in local fruit and vegetable shops.

همزات الوصل هي المزيدة في ماضي الفعل الخماسي والفعل السداسي وأمرهما ومصدرهما وأمر الثلاثي: انطلَق وانطلِق انطلاقاً، استغفَر واستغفِر استغفاراً، اعْلمْ واكْتب واغفِر.

لا تطلق واو الجماعة ولا الضمير "هم" إلا على الذكور العقلاء. أما جماعة غير العقلاء فيعود عليها الضمير المؤنث مفرداً أو مجموعاً. البضائع شحنتها أو شحنتهن.