Browsing Topic Best English Grammar Quotes

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical correctitude sometimes proves easier to urge than to achieve. Among the errors cited in this book are a number committed by some of the leading authorities of this century. If men such as Fowler and Bernstein and Quirk and Howard cannot always get their English right, is it reasonable to expect the rest of us to?

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

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.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

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.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.