Quotes about Grammar

The whole of the Trivium was, in fact, intended to teach the pupil the proper use of the tools of learning.

If someone had shown me a statement of Sawi grammar and asked me to guess the type of persons who developed it, I would have guessed a race of pedantic-philosopher types obsessed with fastidious concern for handling masses of detail efficiently.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

As arts, grammar and logic are concerned with language in relation to thought and thought in relation to language. That is why skill in both reading and writing is gained through these arts.

Grammar makes the difference between feeling you're nuts and feeling your nuts.

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

Theology is nothing else but grammar engaged with the words of the Holy Spirit.