Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
Good grammar develops over time, so relax and put down the red pen. Kids need to make mistakes in writing to move toward correctness. They freeze up if they think you'll pounce on every error. You want your daughters to keep writing, since this is the best way for them to develop strong usage skills.
No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them.
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
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.
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses--clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgement, and education -- Sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Everything bows to success, even grammar.
Statistics is the grammar of science.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Why care for grammar as long as we are good?
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
A philosopher once said, Half of good philosophy is good grammar".
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
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