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Tag Name "Grammar" (223)

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Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.
John Amos Comenius
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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
Gertrude Stein
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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.
Charlton Laird
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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.
Ray Bradbury
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Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
William Safire
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My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.
Robert Lacey
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Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
John Lubbock
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Which is him? The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
Mark Twain
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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.
Charlton Laird
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My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
Edmund Hillary
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).
Robert Hooke
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In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!
Ron Carlson
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The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).
Larry Trask
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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion
Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.
Richard Turner
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scales are the grammar of music.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
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Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.
Peter Farb
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I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.
John Hume
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The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this, with data-handling or 'hypothesis-formulating' ability of unknown character and complexity.
Noam Chomsky
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.
Dave Brubeck
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told.
Gary Marcus
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Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
Maurice Druon
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