Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation
If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.
I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
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.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.