Grammar Quotes

“Punctuation is the art of controlling the reader's pace and emphasis.”

“An adverb is a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.”

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

“African American Vernacular English is not a random collection of errors but a well-formed linguistic system with its own rules and grammar.”

“Hypercorrection is the over-application of a perceived rule of grammar or pronunciation in an attempt to appear more formal or educated.”

“Je vais ou je vas mourir, l'un et l'autre se dit ou se disent.”

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

“A noun's a person, place, or thing, a camp, a fork, a park, a swing.”

“Adjectives are words that describe people, places, and things.”

“A contraction's a word made by shortening and combining two words.”

“Grammar is the structural foundation of our ability to express ourselves.”

“Certain universals of grammar are demonstrable from a consideration of the order of meaningful elements.”

“If a language has dominant VSO order, then the genitive always follows the governing noun.”

“The Verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer.”

“I'm a big fan of theComma, as a concept.”

“A verb's a word that shows some action, gives your sentence satisfaction.”

“A preposition's a word that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word in the sentence.”

“That a man who has been professedly a teacher of others, should discover on every occasion, a want of the common principles of grammar, is truly curious.”

“If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks.”

“All languages have pronominal categories involving at least three persons and two numbers.”