Grammar Quotes

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

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

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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