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Tag Name "Grammar" (223)

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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
A. N. Wilson
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. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
Noam Chomsky
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Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
Bill Bryson
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Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Chenevix Trench
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I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.
Maurice Saatchi
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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
George Bernard Shaw
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
George Steiner
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The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.
Michael Crichton
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
Amos Bronson Alcott
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I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.
Sarah Dunant
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Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.
Noam Chomsky
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I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.
Chris Van Allsburg
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Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
Beryl Bainbridge
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I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.
J. M. Coetzee
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English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.
Bill Bryson
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Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
David Sedaris
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
Raymond Chandler
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Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.
Andrei Tarkovsky
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Christ is Lord of all. This truth implies that he is lord of language, lord of grammar, lord of history, and lord or interpretive principles. We cannot just take things over unchanged from the world around us. We should be thinking through and living through the implications of Christ's lordship in every sphere of life.
Vern Poythress
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Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
H. L. Mencken
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Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.
Janet Burroway
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Grammar is the grave of letters.
Elbert Hubbard
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