Quotes of: Grammar Keyword

You may think that you don't need to worry about actually learning the grammar rules because spell check and grammar check will come to your rescue. And I get it: spell check and grammar check are great. Every time I spot a red or green line in my wr...

Kiss My Asterisk: A Feisty Guide to Punctuation and Grammar

The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment.

The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a won...

No and Me

His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

Emma Stone

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

Joan Didion

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

The Grammar of Science

Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking beca...

John Green

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

The Grammar of Science

As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

Richard Mitchell

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-tuned phrase or an elegant style. But when you are applying the r...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.

The Grammar Of Fantasy: An Introduction To The Art Of Inventing Stories

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity